GENUS HUDSONIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Small evergreen subshrubs of North America

Synonyms:

genus Hudsonia; Hudsonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Hudsonia" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Hudsonia"):

false heather; golden heather; Hudsonia ericoides (North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers)

beach heather; Hudsonia tomentosa; poverty grass (small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America)

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

Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family (shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean)