MYRICARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Myricaria mean? 

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

1. small genus of deciduous shrubs or subshrubs of southern Europe to Siberia and China; tolerant of chalky soil

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYRICARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of deciduous shrubs or subshrubs of southern Europe to Siberia and China; tolerant of chalky soil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Myricaria; Myricaria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Myricaria"):

false tamarisk; German tamarisk; Myricaria germanica (Eurasian shrub resembling the tamarisk)

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

family Tamaricaceae; Tamaricaceae; tamarisk family (family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes))