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GENUS SPRAGUEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Spraguea mean?
• GENUS SPRAGUEA (noun)
The noun GENUS SPRAGUEA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes
Familiarity information: GENUS SPRAGUEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Spraguea; Spraguea
Hypernyms ("genus Spraguea" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Spraguea"):
Calyptridium umbellatum; pussy's-paw; pussy-paw; pussy-paws; Spraguea umbellatum (pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America)
Holonyms ("genus Spraguea" is a member of...):
family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)
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