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    GENUS RUMEX

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regionsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Rumex; Rumex

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Rumex" 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 Rumex"):

    dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)

    Holonyms ("genus Rumex" 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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