VESICARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vesicaria mean? 

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

1. small genus of chiefly Mediterranean herbs: bladderpods

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VESICARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of chiefly Mediterranean herbs: bladderpods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Vesicaria; Vesicaria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Vesicaria"):

bladderpod (annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella)

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

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)