genus amsonia

English Thesaurus

1. genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	amsonia tabernaemontana, blue star,
definition	:	subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	apocynaceae, dogbane family, family apocynaceae,
definition	:	chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs (noun.plant)