noun
perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers
• Syn: ↑genus Apocynum
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Apocynaceae, ↑family Apocynaceae, ↑dogbane family
• Member Meronyms: ↑dogbane
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Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, dogbane, from Greek apokynon, from apo- + -kynon (from kyn-, kyōn dog) — more at hound
: a genus of chiefly American perennial herbs (family Apocynaceae) with opposite leaves and small white or pink flowers in corymbose cymes — see indian hemp 1
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Apocynum /a-posˈi-nəm/
noun
The dogbane genus of plants, giving name to the periwinkle family Apocynāˈceae, closely related to the asclepiads
ORIGIN: Gr apokynon an asclepiad poisonous to dogs, from apo off, and kyōn, kynos a dog
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apocynāˈceous adjective
Of that family
Useful english dictionary. 2012.