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RUMEX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions
Synonyms:
genus Rumex; Rumex
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Rumex" 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 "Rumex"):
dock; sorrel; sour grass (any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine)
Holonyms ("Rumex" 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)
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