ALSTROEMERIA

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Meaning:

Any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alstroemeria"):

Alstroemeria pelegrina; lily of the Incas; Peruvian lily (an Andean herb having umbels of showy pinkish-purple lily-like flowers)

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

genus Alstroemeria (genus of showy South American herbs with leafy stems; sometimes placed in family Alstroemeriaceae or in family Amaryllidaceae)

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