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GENUS MENYANTHES

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Meaning:

The type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans

Synonyms:

genus Menyanthes; Menyanthes

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Menyanthes" 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 Menyanthes"):

bog myrtle; bogbean; buckbean; marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; water shamrock (perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface)

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

buckbean family; family Menyanthaceae; Menyanthaceae (a dicotyledonous family of marsh plants of order Gentianales)

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