GENUS SANTOLINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Santolina mean? 

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

1. genus of Mediterranean subshrubs with rayless flower heads

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SANTOLINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Mediterranean subshrubs with rayless flower heads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Santolina; Santolina

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Santolina"):

lavender cotton; Santolina chamaecyparissus (branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Santolina" 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)