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APOCYNUM

• APOCYNUM (noun)
The noun APOCYNUM has 1 sense:

1. perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers

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

• APOCYNUM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Apocynum; genus Apocynum

Hypernyms ("Apocynum" 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 "Apocynum"):

dogbane (any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root)

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

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)

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