noun
genus of weedy Old World yellow-flowered herbs usually containing a bitter-tasting substance: bitterweed
• Syn: ↑Picris
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family
• Member Meronyms: ↑oxtongue, ↑bristly oxtongue, ↑bitterweed, ↑bugloss, ↑Picris echioides
Useful english dictionary. 2012.