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YELLOW CLINTONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow clintonia mean? 

YELLOW CLINTONIA (noun)
  The noun YELLOW CLINTONIA has 1 sense:

1. common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruitsplay

  Familiarity information: YELLOW CLINTONIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


YELLOW CLINTONIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clintonia borealis; heal all; yellow clintonia

Hypernyms ("yellow clintonia" is a kind of...):

Clinton's lily; clintonia (any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries)

Holonyms ("yellow clintonia" is a member of...):

genus Clintonia (sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae)


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