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    EPILOBIUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areasplay

    Synonyms:

    Epilobium; genus Epilobium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Epilobium"):

    willowherb (a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs)

    Epilobium angustifolium; fireweed; giant willowherb; rosebay willowherb; wickup (tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant)

    California fuchsia; Epilobium canum canum; humming bird's trumpet; Zauschneria californica (shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers)

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

    evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)

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