GENUS DELPHINIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Delphinium mean? 

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

1. large genus of chiefly perennial erect branching herbs of north temperate regions some poisonous

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DELPHINIUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of chiefly perennial erect branching herbs of north temperate regions some poisonous

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Nouns denoting plants

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Delphinium"):

delphinium (any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances)

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

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)