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GENUS ERECHTITES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarse herbs with whitish discoid flower heads and silky pappus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Erechtites" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Erechtites"):
Erechtites hieracifolia; fireweed (an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Erechtites" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
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