LINARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Linaria mean? 

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

1. genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Linaria; Linaria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Linaria"):

butter-and-eggs; devil's flax; Linaria vulgaris; toadflax; wild snapdragon (common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America)

Holonyms ("Linaria" 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)