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CAT'S-EAR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears

Synonyms:

California dandelion; capeweed; cat's-ear; gosmore; Hypochaeris radicata

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cat's-ear" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Holonyms ("cat's-ear" is a member of...):

genus Hypochaeris; genus Hypochoeris; Hypochaeris; Hypochoeris (widely distributed genus of herbs with milky juice; includes some cosmopolitan weeds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cat's-ear" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("cat's-ear" is a member of...):

Calochortus; genus Calochortus (large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs)

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