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GENUS CERASTIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cerastium mean?
• GENUS CERASTIUM (noun)
The noun GENUS CERASTIUM has 1 sense:
1. mouse-eared chickweed
Familiarity information: GENUS CERASTIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mouse-eared chickweed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cerastium; genus Cerastium
Hypernyms ("genus Cerastium" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cerastium"):
chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse-ear chickweed; mouse ear; mouse eared chickweed (any of various plants related to the common chickweed)
Holonyms ("genus Cerastium" is a member of...):
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))
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