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GENUS XERANTHEMUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of annual densely hairy herbs of Mediterranean to southwestern Asia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Xeranthemum" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Xeranthemum"):
xeranthemum (any plant of the genus Xeranthemum native to southern Europe having chaffy or silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers)
immortelle; Xeranthemum annuum (mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere)
Holonyms ("genus Xeranthemum" 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)
