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SEDUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Sedum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sedum" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sedum"):
stonecrop (any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers)
midsummer-men; rose-root; Sedum rosea (Eurasian mountain plant with fleshy pink-tipped leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers)
live-forever; livelong; orpin; orpine; Sedum telephium (perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers)
Holonyms ("sedum" is a member of...):
genus Sedum (large genus of rock plants having thick fleshy leaves)
