GENUS CENTAUREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Centaurea mean? 

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

1. knapweed; star thistle

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CENTAUREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Knapweed; star thistle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Centaurea; genus Centaurea

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Centaurea"):

centaury (any plant of the genus Centaurea)

bachelor's button; bluebottle; Centaurea cyanus; cornflower (an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers)

Centaurea imperialis; sweet sultan (perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Centaurea" 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)