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GENUS SCABIOSA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Scabiosa mean?
• GENUS SCABIOSA (noun)
The noun GENUS SCABIOSA has 1 sense:
1. annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; mainly Mediterranean
Familiarity information: GENUS SCABIOSA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; mainly Mediterranean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Scabiosa" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Scabiosa"):
scabiosa; scabious (any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa)
Holonyms ("genus Scabiosa" is a member of...):
Dipsacaceae; family Dipsacaceae (chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads)
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