GENUS HELIANTHUS

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Meaning:

Genus of tall erect or branched American annual or perennial herbs with showy flowers: sunflowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Helianthus" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Helianthus"):

helianthus; sunflower (any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays)

Holonyms ("genus Helianthus" 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)

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