GENUS HYPERICUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hypericum mean? 

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

1. large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HYPERICUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hypericum; Hypericum

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Hypericum"):

St John's wort (any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil)

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

Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family (widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber)

 Context examples 

A member of the genus Hypericum.

(Hypericum perforatum, NCI Thesaurus)