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AMSONIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America

Synonyms:

Amsonia; genus Amsonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Amsonia"):

Amsonia tabernaemontana; blue star (subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes)

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

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)

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