GENUS COTINUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cotinus mean? 

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

1. smoke trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS COTINUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Smoke trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cotinus; genus Cotinus

Hypernyms ("genus Cotinus" 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 Cotinus"):

smoke bush; smoke tree (any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus)

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

Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family (the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac)