HUDSONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hudsonia mean? 

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

1. small evergreen subshrubs of North America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUDSONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small evergreen subshrubs of North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hudsonia; Hudsonia

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Hudsonia"):

false heather; golden heather; Hudsonia ericoides (North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers)

beach heather; Hudsonia tomentosa; poverty grass (small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America)

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

Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family (shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean)