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BACCHARIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control
Synonyms:
Baccharis; genus Baccharis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Baccharis" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Baccharis"):
Baccharis halimifolia; consumption weed; cotton-seed tree; groundsel bush; groundsel tree (a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts)
Baccharis viminea; mule fat (California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer)
Baccharis pilularis; chaparral broom; coyote brush; coyote bush; kidney wort (widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle)
Holonyms ("Baccharis" 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)
