GENUS PETROCOPTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Petrocoptis mean? 

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

1. perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PETROCOPTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Petrocoptis; Petrocoptis

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

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

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))