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GENUS AMARANTHUS

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Amaranthus mean?

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

1. large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS AMARANTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amaranthus; genus Amaranthus

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus Amaranthus" is a member of...):

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

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