noun
genus of tall erect or branched American annual or perennial herbs with showy flowers: sunflowers
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family
• Member Meronyms: ↑sunflower, ↑helianthus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.