OLD WOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old woman mean? 

• OLD WOMAN (noun)
  The noun OLD WOMAN has 2 senses:

1. a woman who is old
2. herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant

  Familiarity information: OLD WOMAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD WOMAN (noun)

Meaning:

A woman who is old

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("old woman" is a kind of...):

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "old woman"):

beldam; beldame (a woman of advanced age)

granny (an old woman)

beldam; beldame; crone; hag; witch (an ugly evil-looking old woman)

mother (a term of address for an elderly woman)

Meaning:

Herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Artemisia stelleriana; beach wormwood; old woman; dusty miller

Hypernyms ("old woman" is a kind of...):

wormwood (any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium)

Holonyms ("old woman" is a member of...):

genus Artemisia (usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon)