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BRASENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brasenia mean? 

BRASENIA (noun)
  The noun BRASENIA has 1 sense:

1. alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceaeplay

  Familiarity information: BRASENIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRASENIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Brasenia; genus Brasenia

Hypernyms ("Brasenia" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Brasenia"):

Brasenia schreberi; water-shield; water-target (aquatic plant with floating oval leaves and purple flowers; in lakes and slow-moving streams; suitable for aquariums)

Holonyms ("Brasenia" is a member of...):

Cabombaceae; subfamily Cabombaceae; water-shield family (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia)


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