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GENUS ERIOGONUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
North American herbs of the buckwheat family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Eriogonum" 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 Eriogonum"):
eriogonum (any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Eriogonum" is a member of...):
buckwheat family; family Polygonaceae; Polygonaceae (a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats)