GENUS SABBATIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sabbatia mean? 

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

1. genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SABBATIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Sabbatia" 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 Sabbatia"):

sabbatia (any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes)

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

family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)