HYDRASTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hydrastis mean? 

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

1. small genus of perennial herbs having rhizomes and palmate leaves and small solitary flowers; of northeastern United States and Japan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDRASTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of perennial herbs having rhizomes and palmate leaves and small solitary flowers; of northeastern United States and Japan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hydrastis; Hydrastis

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Hydrastis"):

golden seal; goldenseal; Hydrastis Canadensis; turmeric root; yellow root (perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves)

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

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)