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AMERICAN TWINFLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American twinflower mean? 

AMERICAN TWINFLOWER (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN TWINFLOWER has 1 sense:

1. similar to the twinflower of northern Europe and Asiaplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN TWINFLOWER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN TWINFLOWER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Similar to the twinflower of northern Europe and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American twinflower; Linnaea borealis americana

Hypernyms ("American twinflower" is a kind of...):

Linnaea borealis; twinflower (creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs)

Holonyms ("American twinflower" is a member of...):

genus Linnaea; Linnaea (one species: twinflower)


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