SAMOLUS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Samolus mean? 

• SAMOLUS (noun)
  The noun SAMOLUS has 1 sense:

1. genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels

  Familiarity information: SAMOLUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAMOLUS (noun)

Meaning:

Genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Samolus; Samolus

Hypernyms ("Samolus" 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 "Samolus"):

water pimpernel (a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus)

Holonyms ("Samolus" is a member of...):

family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)