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GENUS PARTHENIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers
Synonyms:
genus Parthenium; Parthenium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Parthenium" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Parthenium"):
guayule; Parthenium argentatum (much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber)
bastard feverfew; Parthenium hysterophorus (tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers; adventive in southern United States)
American feverfew; Parthenium integrifolium; prairie dock; wild quinine (stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns)
Holonyms ("genus Parthenium" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
