GENUS STANLEYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Stanleya mean? 

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

1. prince's plume

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS STANLEYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prince's plume

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Stanleya; Stanleya

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Stanleya"):

Cleome pinnata; desert plume; prince's-plume; Stanleya pinnata (perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome)

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

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)