ALLIONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Allionia mean? 

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

1. small genus of chiefly American herbs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLIONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of chiefly American herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Allionia; genus Allionia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Allionia"):

Allionia incarnata; trailing four o'clock; trailing windmills (trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico)

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

Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae (a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales)