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AMARANTHUS

English dictionary: Word overview

AMARANTHUS (noun)
  The noun AMARANTHUS has 1 sense:

1. large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs

  Familiarity information: AMARANTHUS used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


AMARANTHUS (noun)


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Meaning:

Large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amaranthus; genus Amaranthus

Hypernyms ("Amaranthus" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Amaranthus"):

amaranth (any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food)

Amaranthus spinosus; thorny amaranth (erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes)

Holonyms ("Amaranthus" is a member of...):

amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)


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