GENUS PYROLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pyrola mean? 

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

1. short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen; shinleaf

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PYROLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen; shinleaf

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Pyrola"):

pyrola; wintergreen (any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola)

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

family Pyrolaceae; Pyrolaceae; wintergreen family (evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia)