GENUS RUMEX

 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Rumex mean? 

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

1. docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS RUMEX (noun)

Meaning:

Docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Rumex; Rumex

Hypernyms ("genus Rumex" 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 Rumex"):

dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)

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

buckwheat family; family Polygonaceae; Polygonaceae (a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats)