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GENUS GALIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers
Synonyms:
Galium; genus Galium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Galium" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Galium"):
bedstraw (any of several plants of the genus Galium)
Holonyms ("genus Galium" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)