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BRACHYCOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Brachycome mean?
• BRACHYCOME (noun)
The noun BRACHYCOME has 1 sense:
1. mostly Australian herbs having basal or alternate leaves and loosely corymbose flower heads
Familiarity information: BRACHYCOME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly Australian herbs having basal or alternate leaves and loosely corymbose flower heads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Brachycome; genus Brachycome
Hypernyms ("Brachycome" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Brachycome"):
Brachycome Iberidifolia; Swan River daisy (western Australian annual much cultivated for its flower heads with white or bluish to violet or variegated rays)
Holonyms ("Brachycome" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
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