GENUS PHLOX

 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Phlox mean? 

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

1. herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PHLOX (noun)

Meaning:

Herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Phlox"):

phlox (any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers)

chickweed phlox; Phlox bifida; Phlox stellaria; sand phlox (low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United States)

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

family Polemoniaceae; phlox family; Polemoniaceae (a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers)