GENUS GERARDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gerardia mean? 

• GENUS GERARDIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS GERARDIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of annual or perennial herbs with showy pink or purple or yellow flowers; plants often assigned to genera Aureolaria or Agalinis

  Familiarity information: GENUS GERARDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GERARDIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of annual or perennial herbs with showy pink or purple or yellow flowers; plants often assigned to genera Aureolaria or Agalinis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Gerardia" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gerardia"):

gerardia (any plant of the genus Gerardia)

Holonyms ("genus Gerardia" is a member of...):

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)