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GENUS ANEMONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Anemone mean?
• GENUS ANEMONE (noun)
The noun GENUS ANEMONE has 1 sense:
1. perennial herbs with tuberous roots and beautiful flowers; of north and south temperate regions
Familiarity information: GENUS ANEMONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial herbs with tuberous roots and beautiful flowers; of north and south temperate regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Anemone" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Anemone"):
anemone; windflower (any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves)
Holonyms ("genus Anemone" is a member of...):
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)
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