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    GENUS POLYGONUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regionsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Polygonum; Polygonum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Polygonum"):

    China fleece vine; Polygonum aubertii; Russian vine; silver lace vine (twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers; western China to Russia)

    buckwheat; Fagopyrum esculentum; Polygonum fagopyrum (a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour)

    kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate; Polygonum orientale; prince's-feather; prince's-plume; princess feather (annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America)

    Holonyms ("genus Polygonum" is a member of...):

    buckwheat family; family Polygonaceae; Polygonaceae (a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats)

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