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GENUS ANAGALLIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Anagallis mean?
• GENUS ANAGALLIS (noun)
The noun GENUS ANAGALLIS has 1 sense:
1. chiefly Old World herbs
Familiarity information: GENUS ANAGALLIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly Old World herbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Anagallis; genus Anagallis
Hypernyms ("genus Anagallis" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Anagallis"):
pimpernel (any of several plants of the genus Anagallis)
Holonyms ("genus Anagallis" is a member of...):
family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)
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