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Picris

noun

genus of weedy Old World yellow-flowered herbs usually containing a bitter-tasting substance: bitterweed

• Syn: ↑genus Picris

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family

• Member Meronyms: ↑oxtongue, ↑bristly oxtongue, ↑bitterweed, ↑bugloss, ↑Picris echioides

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\\ˈpikrə̇s\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, bitter lettuce, a salad, from Greek pikris oxtongue, from pikros bitter

: a genus of weedy herbs (family Compositae) chiefly of the Old World having leafy stems, large yellow ray flowers, and linear achenes

Useful english dictionary. 2012.