PICKERINGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pickeringia mean? 

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

1. one species: chaparral pea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICKERINGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: chaparral pea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pickeringia; Pickeringia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Pickeringia"):

chaparral pea; Pickeringia montana; stingaree-bush (spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)