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GENUS STELLARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Stellaria mean?
• GENUS STELLARIA (noun)
The noun GENUS STELLARIA has 1 sense:
1. common chickweed; stitchwort
Familiarity information: GENUS STELLARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common chickweed; stitchwort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Stellaria; Stellaria
Hypernyms ("genus Stellaria" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Stellaria"):
chickweed (any of various plants of the genus Stellaria)
Holonyms ("genus Stellaria" is a member of...):
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))
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