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GENUS TOLMIEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tolmiea mean? 

GENUS TOLMIEA (noun)
  The noun GENUS TOLMIEA has 1 sense:

1. one species: pickaback plantplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS TOLMIEA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: pickaback plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tolmiea; Tolmiea

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Tolmiea"):

pickaback plant; piggyback plant; Tolmiea menziesii; youth-on-age (vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk)

Holonyms ("genus Tolmiea" 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)


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