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TOLMIEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tolmiea mean?
• TOLMIEA (noun)
The noun TOLMIEA has 1 sense:
1. one species: pickaback plant
Familiarity information: TOLMIEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: pickaback plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Tolmiea; Tolmiea
Hypernyms ("Tolmiea" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Tolmiea"):
pickaback plant; piggyback plant; Tolmiea menziesii; youth-on-age (vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk)
Holonyms ("Tolmiea" is a member of...):
family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)
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