GENUS DIAPENSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Diapensia mean? 

• GENUS DIAPENSIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS DIAPENSIA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of Diapensiaceae

  Familiarity information: GENUS DIAPENSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DIAPENSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of Diapensiaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Diapensia" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Diapensia"):

diapensia (any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia)

Holonyms ("genus Diapensia" is a member of...):

diapensia family; Diapensiaceae; family Diapensiaceae (north temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales)