SENECIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Senecio mean? 

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

1. enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENECIO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Senecio; Senecio

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Senecio"):

nodding groundsel; Senecio bigelovii (plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks; moist regions of southwestern United States)

Cineraria maritima; dusty miller; Senecio cineraria (stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves)

Senecio doublasii; threadleaf groundsel (bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads; southwestern United States; toxic to range livestock)

butterweed; ragwort; Senecio glabellus (American ragwort with yellow flowers)

benweed; ragweed; ragwort; Senecio jacobaea; tansy ragwort (widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity)

groundsel; Senecio vulgaris (Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers)

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

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)