GENUS ERIOGONUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Eriogonum mean? 

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

1. North American herbs of the buckwheat family

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ERIOGONUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American herbs of the buckwheat family

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Eriogonum" 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 Eriogonum"):

eriogonum (any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers)

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

buckwheat family; family Polygonaceae; Polygonaceae (a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats)