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GENUS NIGELLA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Nigella mean?
• GENUS NIGELLA (noun)
The noun GENUS NIGELLA has 1 sense:
1. erect annual Eurasian herbs
Familiarity information: GENUS NIGELLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Erect annual Eurasian herbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Nigella" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Nigella"):
nigella (any plant of the genus Nigella)
Holonyms ("genus Nigella" is a member of...):
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)
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