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LOBELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lobelia mean? 

LOBELIA (noun)
  The noun LOBELIA has 1 sense:

1. any plant or flower of the genus Lobeliaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LOBELIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lobelia"):

cardinal flower; Indian pink; Lobelia cardinalis (North American lobelia having brilliant red flowers)

bladderpod; Indian tobacco; Lobelia inflata (North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic)

Lobelia dortmanna; water lobelia (erect perennial aquatic herb of Europe and North America having submerged spongy leaves and pendulous racemes of blue flowers above the water)

blue cardinal flower; great lobelia; Lobelia siphilitica (tall erect and very leafy perennial herb of eastern North America having dense spikes of blue flowers)

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

genus Lobelia (in some classifications considered the type genus of a separate family Lobeliaceae)


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