GENUS AGERATINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Ageratina mean? 

• GENUS AGERATINA (noun)
  The noun GENUS AGERATINA has 1 sense:

1. annual to perennial herbs or shrubs of eastern United States and Central and South America

  Familiarity information: GENUS AGERATINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS AGERATINA (noun)

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Meaning:

Annual to perennial herbs or shrubs of eastern United States and Central and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ageratina; genus Ageratina

Hypernyms ("genus Ageratina" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Ageratina"):

Ageratina altissima; Eupatorium rugosum; white sanicle; white snakeroot (American herb having flat-topped clusters of small white flower heads; reputedly a cause of trembles and milk sickness; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium)

Holonyms ("genus Ageratina" is a member of...):

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)