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PETROCOPTIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Petrocoptis mean?
• PETROCOPTIS (noun)
The noun PETROCOPTIS has 1 sense:
1. perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
Familiarity information: PETROCOPTIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Petrocoptis; Petrocoptis
Hypernyms ("Petrocoptis" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Holonyms ("Petrocoptis" is a member of...):
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))
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