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GENUS IVA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Iva mean?
• GENUS IVA (noun)
The noun GENUS IVA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of American herbs or shrubs; in some classifications placed in a separate family Ambrosiaceae
Familiarity information: GENUS IVA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of American herbs or shrubs; in some classifications placed in a separate family Ambrosiaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Iva" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Iva"):
iva; marsh elder (any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America)
Holonyms ("genus Iva" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
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