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GENUS MACLEAYA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Macleaya mean?
• GENUS MACLEAYA (noun)
The noun GENUS MACLEAYA has 1 sense:
1. a perennial herb of eastern Asia: plume poppy
Familiarity information: GENUS MACLEAYA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A perennial herb of eastern Asia: plume poppy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Macleaya; Macleaya
Hypernyms ("genus Macleaya" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Macleaya"):
bocconia; Macleaya cordata; plume poppy (herb of China and Japan widely cultivated for its plumelike panicles of creamy white flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Macleaya" is a member of...):
family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family (herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits)
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