GENUS ARGEMONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Argemone mean? 

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

1. prickly poppies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ARGEMONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prickly poppies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Argemone"):

argemone; devil's fig; prickly poppy; white thistle (any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America)

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

family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family (herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits)