PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM

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Meaning:

Much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber

Synonyms:

guayule; Parthenium argentatum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Parthenium argentatum" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("Parthenium argentatum" is a member of...):

genus Parthenium; Parthenium (small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers)

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