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ILIAMNA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Iliamna mean?
• ILIAMNA (noun)
The noun ILIAMNA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs; some often placed in other genera
Familiarity information: ILIAMNA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs; some often placed in other genera
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Iliamna; Iliamna
Hypernyms ("Iliamna" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Iliamna"):
Iliamna remota; Sphaeralcea remota; wild hollyhock (a rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea)
Iliamna acerifolia; Iliamna ruvularis; mountain hollyhock (perennial of northwestern United States and western Canada resembling a hollyhock and having white or pink flowers)
Holonyms ("Iliamna" is a member of...):
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
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