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LASTHENIA CHRYSOSTOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lasthenia chrysostoma mean? 

LASTHENIA CHRYSOSTOMA (noun)
  The noun LASTHENIA CHRYSOSTOMA has 1 sense:

1. small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivatedplay

  Familiarity information: LASTHENIA CHRYSOSTOMA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LASTHENIA CHRYSOSTOMA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

goldfields; Lasthenia chrysostoma

Hypernyms ("Lasthenia chrysostoma" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("Lasthenia chrysostoma" is a member of...):

genus Lasthenia; Lasthenia (small genus of herbs of Pacific coast of North and South America)


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