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GENUS ACTAEA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Actaea mean?

• GENUS ACTAEA (noun)
The noun GENUS ACTAEA has 1 sense:

1. baneberry

Familiarity information: GENUS ACTAEA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS ACTAEA (noun)

Sense 1

genus Actaea ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Baneberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Actaea; genus Actaea

Hypernyms ("genus Actaea" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Actaea"):

baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher (a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries)

Holonyms ("genus Actaea" is a member of...):

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)

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