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

1 sense of genus xerophyllum

Sense 1
Xerophyllum, genus Xerophyllum -- (small genus of North American herbs having grasslike basal leaves: squaw grass; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)
       => liliid monocot genus -- (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)