GENUS VERONICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Veronica mean? 

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

1. widespread genus of herbs with pink or white or blue or purple flowers: speedwell

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS VERONICA (noun)

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Meaning:

Widespread genus of herbs with pink or white or blue or purple flowers: speedwell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Veronica"):

speedwell; veronica (any plant of the genus Veronica)

field speedwell; Veronica agrestis (European plant with minute axillary blue flowers on long stalks; widely naturalized in America)

American brooklime; brooklime; Veronica americana (plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers)

brooklime; European brooklime; Veronica beccabunga (European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America)

Veronica anagallis-aquatica; Veronica michauxii; water speedwell (plant of wet places in Eurasia and America)

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

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)