HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hudsonia tomentosa mean? 

• HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA (noun)
  The noun HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA has 1 sense:

1. small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America

  Familiarity information: HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beach heather; Hudsonia tomentosa; poverty grass

Hypernyms ("Hudsonia tomentosa" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("Hudsonia tomentosa" is a member of...):

genus Hudsonia; Hudsonia (small evergreen subshrubs of North America)