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FRASERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Frasera mean? 

FRASERA (noun)
  The noun FRASERA has 1 sense:

1. genus of North American herbs: columbo; includes some species sometimes placed in genus Swertiaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FRASERA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of North American herbs: columbo; includes some species sometimes placed in genus Swertia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Frasera; genus Frasera

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Frasera"):

American columbo; American gentian; columbo; deer's-ear; deer's-ears; pyramid plant (any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington)

Frasera speciosa; green gentian; Swertia speciosa (tall herb with panicles of white flowers flushed with green; northwestern United States; sometimes placed in genus Swertia)

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

family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)


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