HyperDic: genus_apocynum

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Apocynum:
NOUNplantgenus Apocynum, Apocynumperennial herbs with small pink or white flowers
English > genus Apocynum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningperennial herbs with small pink or white flowers.
SynonymApocynum
Member ofApocynaceae, family Apocynaceae, dogbane familychiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers
MembersdogbaneAny of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root
Broaderdicot genus, magnoliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanishapocynum, genus apocynum
Catalanapocynum, Apocynum, genus apocynum

©2001-24 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact

English | Spanish | Catalan
Privacy | Robots

Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict