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RUMEX

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions

Synonyms:

genus Rumex; Rumex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Rumex" 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 "Rumex"):

dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)

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

buckwheat family; family Polygonaceae; Polygonaceae (a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats)

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