AMSINCKIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amsinckia mean? 

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

1. rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMSINCKIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amsinckia; genus Amsinckia

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

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Amsinckia"):

Amsinckia intermedia; common amsinckia (annual of western United States with coiled spikes of yellow-orange coiled flowers)

Amsinckia grandiflora; large-flowered fiddleneck (annual of the western United States having large coiled flower spikes; a threatened species)

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

borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)