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SANTOLINA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Santolina mean?
• SANTOLINA (noun)
The noun SANTOLINA has 1 sense:
1. genus of Mediterranean subshrubs with rayless flower heads
Familiarity information: SANTOLINA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of Mediterranean subshrubs with rayless flower heads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Santolina; Santolina
Hypernyms ("Santolina" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Santolina"):
lavender cotton; Santolina chamaecyparissus (branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers)
Holonyms ("Santolina" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
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