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GENUS CHENOPODIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Goosefoot; pigweed

Synonyms:

Chenopodium; genus Chenopodium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Chenopodium"):

goosefoot (any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers)

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

Chenopodiaceae; family Chenopodiaceae; goosefoot family (includes spinach and beets)

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