COMPOSITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does composite mean? 

• COMPOSITE (noun)
  The noun COMPOSITE has 2 senses:

1. a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
2. considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers

  Familiarity information: COMPOSITE used as a noun is rare.

• COMPOSITE (adjective)
  The adjective COMPOSITE has 2 senses:

1. consisting of separate interconnected parts
2. of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae

  Familiarity information: COMPOSITE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPOSITE (noun)

Meaning:

A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

complex; composite

Context example:

the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town

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

whole (all of something including all its component elements or parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composite"):

hybrid (a composite of mixed origin)

syndrome (a complex of concurrent things)

Meaning:

Considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

composite plant; composite

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composite"):

golden buttons; scented fern; Tanacetum vulgare; tansy (common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally)

Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum; dusty miller; silver lace; silver-lace; Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum (shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum)

Chrysanthemum lacustre; Leucanthemum lacustre; Pyrenees daisy (perennial of Portugal similar to the oxeye daisy)

Chrysanthemum maximum maximum; Leucanthemum superbum; shasta daisy (hybrid garden flower derived from Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum lacustre having large white flower heads resembling oxeye daisies; often placed in the genus Chrysanthemum)

Chrysanthemum maximum; Leucanthemum maximum; oxeye daisy (similar to oxeye daisy)

Anthemis arvensis; corn chamomile; corn mayweed; field chamomile (European white-flowered weed naturalized in North America)

Anthemis tinctoria; dyers' chamomile; golden marguerite; yellow chamomile (Eurasian perennial herb with hairy divided leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in North America)

Anthemis cotula; dog fennel; mayweed; stinking chamomile; stinking mayweed (widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs)

everlasting; everlasting flower (any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)

compass flower; compass plant (any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass)

crown beard; crown-beard; crownbeard (any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads)

Holonyms ("composite" 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)

• COMPOSITE (adjective)

Meaning:

Consisting of separate interconnected parts

Similar:

complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)

Meaning:

Of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Pertainym:

family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)