GENUS TRIBULUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tribulus mean? 

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

1. annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS TRIBULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tribulus; Tribulus

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Tribulus"):

caltrop; devil's weed; Tribulus terestris (tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed)

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

bean-caper family; family Zygophyllaceae; Zygophyllaceae (small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea)