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GENUS TRITICUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Triticum mean?
• GENUS TRITICUM (noun)
The noun GENUS TRITICUM has 1 sense:
1. annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions
Familiarity information: GENUS TRITICUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Triticum; Triticum
Hypernyms ("genus Triticum" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Triticum"):
wheat (annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains)
Holonyms ("genus Triticum" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)
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