EUPATORIUM

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

1. large genus of chiefly tropical herbs having heads of white or purplish flowers

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

• EUPATORIUM (noun)

Meaning:

Large genus of chiefly tropical herbs having heads of white or purplish flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eupatorium; genus Eupatorium

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Eupatorium"):

Eupatorium maculatum; Joe-Pye weed; spotted Joe-Pye weed (North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of small pinkish or purple flower heads)

agueweed; boneset; Eupatorium perfoliatum; thoroughwort (perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine)

Eupatorium purpureum; Joe-Pye weed; marsh milkweed; purple boneset; trumpet weed (North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple)

Holonyms ("Eupatorium" 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)