GENUS FROELICHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Froelichia mean? 

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

1. genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS FROELICHIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Froelichia; genus Froelichia

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Froelichia"):

cottonweed (any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers)

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

amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)