Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun genus_rhus

1 sense of genus rhus

Sense 1
Rhus, genus Rhus -- (deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia; usually limited to nonpoisonous sumacs (see genus Toxicodendron))
       => dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus -- (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)