HELIANTHEMUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does helianthemum mean? 

• HELIANTHEMUM (noun)
  The noun HELIANTHEMUM has 1 sense:

1. any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions

  Familiarity information: HELIANTHEMUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELIANTHEMUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

helianthemum; sun rose; sunrose

Hypernyms ("helianthemum" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "helianthemum"):

Crocanthemum canadense; frost-weed; frostweed; frostwort; Helianthemum canadense (perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts)

rock rose; rockrose (any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers)

Helianthemum scoparium; rush rose (woody yellow-flowered perennial of southeastern United States)

Holonyms ("helianthemum" is a member of...):

genus Helianthemum (widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia)