GENUS SAMOLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Samolus mean? 

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

1. genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SAMOLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Samolus; Samolus

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Samolus"):

water pimpernel (a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus)

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

family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)