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CORYDALIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Corydalidae
Synonyms:
Corydalis; Corydalus; genus Corydalis; genus Corydalus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Corydalis" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Corydalis"):
Corydalus cornutus; dobson; dobson fly; dobsonfly (large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait)
dobson; hellgrammiate (large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait)
Holonyms ("Corydalis" is a member of...):
Corydalidae; family Corydalidae (dobsons)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa
Synonyms:
Corydalis; genus Corydalis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Corydalis" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Corydalis"):
corydalis (a plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers)
climbing corydalis; Corydalis claviculata; Fumaria claviculata (annual vine with decompound leaves and racemes of yellow and pink flowers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Corydalis"):
Corydalis sempervirens; Fumaria sempervirens; rock harlequin; Roman wormwood (glaucous herb of northeastern United States and Canada having loose racemes of yellow-tipped pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria)
Corydalis solida; fumeroot; fumewort (herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers)
Holonyms ("Corydalis" is a member of...):
family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family (herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("corydalis" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("corydalis" is a member of...):
Corydalis; genus Corydalis (annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa)
