HACKELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hackelia mean? 

• HACKELIA (noun)
  The noun HACKELIA has 1 sense:

1. stickweed; beggar's lice

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HACKELIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stickweed; beggar's lice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hackelia; genus Lappula; Hackelia; Lappula

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

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Hackelia"):

beggar's lice; beggar lice (Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing)

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

borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)