English > Rumex: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions. |
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Synonym | genus Rumex |
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Member of | Polygonaceae, family Polygonaceae, buckwheat family | A family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone |
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Members | dock, sorrel, sour grass | Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine |
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Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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Spanish | genus rumex, rumex |
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Catalan | genus rumex, rumex, Rumex |
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