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GENUS SILENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Silene mean? 

GENUS SILENE (noun)
  The noun GENUS SILENE has 1 sense:

1. large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchflyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS SILENE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Silene"):

campion; catchfly; silene (any plant of the genus Silene)

moss campion; Silene acaulis (tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America)

Silene caroliniana; wild pink (perennial of eastern and central North America having short-stalked pink or white flowers in hairy clusters)

Lychnis dioica; red bird's eye; red campion; Silene dioica (biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)

bladder campion; evening lychnis; Lychnis alba; Silene latifolia; white campion; white cockle (bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)

fire pink; Silene virginica (perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals)

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

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))


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