/ English Dictionary |
GENUS HELIANTHEMUM
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Helianthemum" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Helianthemum"):
helianthemum; sun rose; sunrose (any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions)
Holonyms ("genus Helianthemum" is a member of...):
Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family (shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean)