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SENECIO
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds
Synonyms:
genus Senecio; Senecio
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Senecio" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("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)
