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GENUS HOTTONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hottonia mean?
• GENUS HOTTONIA (noun)
The noun GENUS HOTTONIA has 1 sense:
1. aquatic herbs
Familiarity information: GENUS HOTTONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aquatic herbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Hottonia; Hottonia
Hypernyms ("genus Hottonia" 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 Hottonia"):
feather-foil; featherfoil (a plant of the genus Hottonia)
Holonyms ("genus Hottonia" 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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