AMARANTHUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs

Synonyms:

Amaranthus; genus Amaranthus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Amaranthus" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Amaranthus"):

amaranth (any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food)

Amaranthus spinosus; thorny amaranth (erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes)

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

amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)