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CENTAURIUM

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Meaning:

Genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers

Synonyms:

Centaurium; genus Centaurium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Centaurium" 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 "Centaurium"):

centaury (any of various plants of the genus Centaurium)

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

family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)

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