GENUS SPHAGNUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sphagnum mean? 

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

1. a large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water

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

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• GENUS SPHAGNUM (noun)

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Meaning:

A large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water

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Nouns denoting plants

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

moss genus (a genus of mosses)

Meronyms (members of "genus Sphagnum"):

bog moss; peat moss; sphagnum; sphagnum moss (any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat)

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

order Sphagnales; Sphagnales (coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass)