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DRYAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Dryas mean?
• DRYAS (noun)
The noun DRYAS has 1 sense:
1. mountain avens
Familiarity information: DRYAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mountain avens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Dryas; genus Dryas
Hypernyms ("Dryas" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Dryas"):
Dryas octopetala; mountain avens (creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers; widely distributed in northern portions of Eurasia and North America)
Holonyms ("Dryas" is a member of...):
family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)
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