WHIPPLE'S PENSTEMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Whipple's penstemon mean? 

• WHIPPLE'S PENSTEMON (noun)
  The noun WHIPPLE'S PENSTEMON has 1 sense:

1. wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico

  Familiarity information: WHIPPLE'S PENSTEMON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHIPPLE'S PENSTEMON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Penstemon whippleanus; Whipple's penstemon

Hypernyms ("Whipple's penstemon" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("Whipple's penstemon" is a member of...):

genus Penstemon; Penstemon (large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; mostly western North America)