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STEMLESS HYMENOXYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stemless hymenoxys mean? 

STEMLESS HYMENOXYS (noun)
  The noun STEMLESS HYMENOXYS has 1 sense:

1. perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head; dry hillsides and plains of west central North Americaplay

  Familiarity information: STEMLESS HYMENOXYS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STEMLESS HYMENOXYS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head; dry hillsides and plains of west central North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Hymenoxys acaulis; stemless hymenoxys; Tetraneuris acaulis

Hypernyms ("stemless hymenoxys" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("stemless hymenoxys" is a member of...):

genus Tetraneuris; Tetraneuris (genus of hairy yellow-flowered plants of the western United States)


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