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    GENUS SENECIO

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weedsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Senecio; Senecio

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Senecio"):

    nodding groundsel; Senecio bigelovii (plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks; moist regions of southwestern United States)

    Cineraria maritima; dusty miller; Senecio cineraria (stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves)

    Senecio doublasii; threadleaf groundsel (bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads; southwestern United States; toxic to range livestock)

    butterweed; ragwort; Senecio glabellus (American ragwort with yellow flowers)

    benweed; ragweed; ragwort; Senecio jacobaea; tansy ragwort (widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity)

    groundsel; Senecio vulgaris (Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers)

    Holonyms ("genus Senecio" 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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