EPILOBIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Epilobium mean? 

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

1. large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPILOBIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areas

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Epilobium; genus Epilobium

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Epilobium"):

willowherb (a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs)

Epilobium angustifolium; fireweed; giant willowherb; rosebay willowherb; wickup (tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant)

California fuchsia; Epilobium canum canum; humming bird's trumpet; Zauschneria californica (shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers)

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

evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)