SPRAGUEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spraguea mean? 

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

1. small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPRAGUEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Spraguea; Spraguea

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Spraguea"):

Calyptridium umbellatum; pussy's-paw; pussy-paw; pussy-paws; Spraguea umbellatum (pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America)

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

family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)