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GENUS RESEDA

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Meaning:

Old World genus of herbs having racemose flowers: mignonette; dyer's rocket

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Reseda"):

reseda (any plant of the genus Reseda)

mignonette; Reseda odorata; sweet reseda (Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance)

dyer's mignonette; dyer's rocket; Reseda luteola; weld (European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America)

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

family Resedaceae; mignonette family; Resedaceae (mainly Mediterranean herbs: mignonette)

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