GENUS FUMARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Fumaria mean? 

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

1. annual herbs whose flowers have only one petal spurred at the base

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS FUMARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual herbs whose flowers have only one petal spurred at the base

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Fumaria; genus Fumaria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Fumaria"):

Fumaria officinalis; fumeroot; fumewort; fumitory (delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally)

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

family Fumariaceae; Fumariaceae; fumitory family (erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn)