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GENUS TYPHA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Typha mean?
• GENUS TYPHA (noun)
The noun GENUS TYPHA has 1 sense:
1. reed maces; cattails
Familiarity information: GENUS TYPHA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reed maces; cattails
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Typha; Typha
Hypernyms ("genus Typha" 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 Typha"):
cattail (tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes)
Holonyms ("genus Typha" is a member of...):
cattail family; family Typhaceae; Typhaceae (perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves)
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