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GENUS ERIOCAULON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Eriocaulon mean?
• GENUS ERIOCAULON (noun)
The noun GENUS ERIOCAULON has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Eriocaulaceae: rushlike aquatic or marginal perennials usually found in shallow waters of acid lakes and pools and bogs
Familiarity information: GENUS ERIOCAULON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Eriocaulaceae: rushlike aquatic or marginal perennials usually found in shallow waters of acid lakes and pools and bogs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Eriocaulon; genus Eriocaulon
Hypernyms ("genus Eriocaulon" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Eriocaulon"):
Eriocaulon aquaticum; pipewort (aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Eriocaulon" is a member of...):
Eriocaulaceae; family Eriocaulaceae; pipewort family (chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs: pipeworts)
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