GENUS COMPTONIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Comptonia mean? • GENUS COMPTONIA (noun)
The noun GENUS COMPTONIA has 1 sense:
1. one species: sweet fern
Familiarity information: GENUS COMPTONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS COMPTONIA (noun)
Meaning:
One species: sweet fern
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Comptonia; genus Comptonia
Hypernyms ("genus Comptonia" 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 "genus Comptonia"):
Comptonia asplenifolia; Comptonia peregrina; sweet fern (deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Comptonia" is a member of...):
family Myricaceae; Myricaceae; wax-myrtle family (constituting the order Myricales)
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