GENUS ASARUM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Wild ginger

Synonyms:

Asarum; genus Asarum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Asarum" 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 "genus Asarum"):

wild ginger (low-growing perennial herb with pungent gingery leaves and rhizomes)

Asarum shuttleworthii; heart-leaf; heartleaf (wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama)

Holonyms ("genus Asarum" is a member of...):

Aristolochiaceae; birthwort family; family Aristolochiaceae (family of birthworts (including wild ginger))