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DICENTRA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers
Synonyms:
Dicentra; genus Dicentra
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Dicentra" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Dicentra"):
bleeding heart; Dicentra spectabilis; lyre-flower; lyreflower (garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers)
Dicentra cucullaria; Dutchman's breeches (delicate spring-flowering plant of the eastern United States having white flowers with double spurs)
Holonyms ("Dicentra" is a member of...):
family Fumariaceae; Fumariaceae; fumitory family (erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn)
