GENUS MOLLUGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Molluga mean? 

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

1. carpetweeds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MOLLUGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carpetweeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Molluga; Molluga

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Molluga"):

carpetweed; Indian chickweed; Molluga verticillata (annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America)

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

Aizoaceae; carpetweed family; family Aizoaceae; family Tetragoniaceae; Tetragoniaceae (succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds)