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GENUS EMPETRUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Empetrum mean?
• GENUS EMPETRUM (noun)
The noun GENUS EMPETRUM has 1 sense:
1. crowberries
Familiarity information: GENUS EMPETRUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Crowberries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Empetrum; genus Empetrum
Hypernyms ("genus Empetrum" 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 Empetrum"):
crowberry (a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit)
Holonyms ("genus Empetrum" is a member of...):
crowberry family; Empetraceae; family Empetraceae (heathlike shrubs)
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