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LAPPULA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lappula mean?
• LAPPULA (noun)
The noun LAPPULA has 1 sense:
1. stickweed; beggar's lice
Familiarity information: LAPPULA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stickweed; beggar's lice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Hackelia; genus Lappula; Hackelia; Lappula
Hypernyms ("Lappula" is a kind of...):
plant genus (a genus of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Lappula"):
beggar's lice; beggar lice (Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing)
Holonyms ("Lappula" is a member of...):
borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)
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