GENUS POLEMONIUM

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

1. type genus of the Polemoniaceae

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

• GENUS POLEMONIUM (noun)

Meaning:

Type genus of the Polemoniaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Polemonium"):

polemonium (any plant of the genus Polemonium; most are low-growing often foul-smelling plants of temperate to arctic regions)

Holonyms ("genus Polemonium" 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)