CALOCHORTUS MACROCARPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Calochortus macrocarpus mean? 

• CALOCHORTUS MACROCARPUS (noun)
  The noun CALOCHORTUS MACROCARPUS has 1 sense:

1. mariposa having loose clusters of one to three handsome lilac flowers resembling umbels atop stout erect stems; arid northwestern North America east of Cascade Mountains from southern British Columbia to northern California

  Familiarity information: CALOCHORTUS MACROCARPUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALOCHORTUS MACROCARPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mariposa having loose clusters of one to three handsome lilac flowers resembling umbels atop stout erect stems; arid northwestern North America east of Cascade Mountains from southern British Columbia to northern California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calochortus macrocarpus; sagebrush mariposa tulip

Hypernyms ("Calochortus macrocarpus" is a kind of...):

mariposa; mariposa lily; mariposa tulip (any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico)

Holonyms ("Calochortus macrocarpus" is a member of...):

Calochortus; genus Calochortus (large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs)