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SPRING BEAUTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spring beauty mean? 

SPRING BEAUTY (noun)
  The noun SPRING BEAUTY has 1 sense:

1. small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible cormplay

  Familiarity information: SPRING BEAUTY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPRING BEAUTY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clatonia lanceolata; spring beauty

Hypernyms ("spring beauty" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Holonyms ("spring beauty" is a member of...):

Claytonia; genus Claytonia (genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes)


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