HOTTONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hottonia mean? 

• HOTTONIA (noun)
  The noun HOTTONIA has 1 sense:

1. aquatic herbs

  Familiarity information: HOTTONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOTTONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aquatic herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hottonia; Hottonia

Hypernyms ("Hottonia" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Hottonia"):

feather-foil; featherfoil (a plant of the genus Hottonia)

Holonyms ("Hottonia" is a member of...):

family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)