SARCODES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sarcodes mean? 

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

1. snow plant; in some classifications placed in family Pyrolaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARCODES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Snow plant; in some classifications placed in family Pyrolaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sarcodes; Sarcodes

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Sarcodes"):

Sarcodes sanguinea; snow plant (a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground)

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

family Monotropaceae; Monotropaceae (used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes)