SABBATIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sabbatia mean? 

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

1. any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SABBATIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes

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Nouns denoting plants

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

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

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

American centaury; bitter floom; marsh pink; rose pink; Sabbatia Angularis; Sabbatia stellaris (any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury)

prairia Sabbatia; Sabbatia campestris; Texas star (prairie herb with solitary lilac-colored flowers)

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

genus Sabbatia (genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers)