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Webster 1913 Edition
Eupatorium
Euˊpa-to′ri-um
,Noun.
[NL., fr.
Eupator
, king of Pontus, said to have used it as a medicine.] (Bot.)
A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.
Definition 2024
Eupatorium
Eupatorium
See also: eupatorium
Translingual
Proper noun
Eupatorium n
- (sensu stricto) A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – bonesets, thoroughworts, and snakeroots.
- (sensu lato) A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – all of Eupatorium sensu stricto and more than a dozen of what are now considered separate genera.
Hypernyms
- (both senses): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Eupatorieae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus sensu stricto): Eupatorium altissimum, Eupatorium cannabinum (hemp-agrimony), Eupatorium capillifolium, Eupatorium chinense, Eupatorium fortunei, Eupatorium glomeratum, Eupatorium hiemale, Eupatorium hyssopifolium, Eupatorium japonicum, Eupatorium leucolepis, Eupatorium lindleyanum, Eupatorium mohrii, Eupatorium oblongifolium, Eupatorium perfoliatum, Eupatorium pilosum, Eupatorium resinosum, Eupatorium salvia, Eupatorium serotinum, Eupatorium sessilifolium, Eupatorium subhastatum, Eupatorium trapezoideum - species
- (genus sensu lato): species of Eupatorium sensu stricto and species of the following now often treated as separate genera: Ageratina, Chromolaena, Condylidium, Conoclinium, Critonia, Cronquistianthus, Eutrochium, Fleischmannia, Flyriella, Hebeclinium, Koanophyllon, Mikania, Tamaulipa
eupatorium
eupatorium
See also: Eupatorium
English
Noun
eupatorium (plural eupatoriums)
- (botany) Any of the genus Eupatorium of perennial herbs.