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GENUS CENTAURIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Centaurium mean? 

GENUS CENTAURIUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS CENTAURIUM has 1 sense:

1. genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS CENTAURIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Centaurium; genus Centaurium

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Centaurium"):

centaury (any of various plants of the genus Centaurium)

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

family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)


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