GENUS SUKSDORFIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Suksdorfia mean? 

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

1. small genus of rhizomatous herbs of northwestern America and South America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SUKSDORFIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of rhizomatous herbs of northwestern America and South America

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Suksdorfia"):

suksdorfia (any of several American plants of the genus Suksdorfia having orbicular to kidney-shaped somewhat succulent leaves and white or rose or violet flowers in terminal panicles)

Suksdorfia violaceae; violet suksdorfia (slender delicate plant with wide roundish deeply lobed leaves and deep pink to violet funnel-shaped flowers; British Columbia to northern Oregon and west to Idaho and Montana)

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

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)