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CHECKERBLOOM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does checkerbloom mean?
• CHECKERBLOOM (noun)
The noun CHECKERBLOOM has 1 sense:
1. perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated
Familiarity information: CHECKERBLOOM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
checkerbloom; Sidalcea malviflora; wild hollyhock
Hypernyms ("checkerbloom" is a kind of...):
mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)
Holonyms ("checkerbloom" is a member of...):
genus Sidalcea; Sidalcea (genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers)
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