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GENUS MENYANTHES
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans
Synonyms:
genus Menyanthes; Menyanthes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Menyanthes" 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 Menyanthes"):
bog myrtle; bogbean; buckbean; marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; water shamrock (perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface)
Holonyms ("genus Menyanthes" is a member of...):
buckbean family; family Menyanthaceae; Menyanthaceae (a dicotyledonous family of marsh plants of order Gentianales)