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DRACUNCULUS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Dracunculidae

Synonyms:

Dracunculus; genus Dracunculus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

worm genus (a genus of worms)

Meronyms (members of "Dracunculus"):

Dracunculus medinensis; Guinea worm (parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates)

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

Dracunculidae; family Dracunculidae (greatly elongated roundworm)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tuberous herbaceous perennials: dragon arum

Synonyms:

Dracunculus; genus Dracunculus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Dracunculus"):

Dracunculus vulgaris; dragon arum; green dragon (European arum resembling the cuckoopint)

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

Araceae; arum family; family Araceae (anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron)

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