GENUS DRABA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Draba mean? 

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

1. large genus of low tufted herbs of temperate and Arctic regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DRABA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of low tufted herbs of temperate and Arctic regions

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Draba"):

draba (any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique)

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

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)