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    FALSE BEACHDROPS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitysplay

    Synonyms:

    false beachdrops; Monotropa hypopithys; pinesap

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("false beachdrops" is a kind of...):

    wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

    Holonyms ("false beachdrops" is a member of...):

    genus Monotropa; Monotropa (leafless fleshy saprophytic plants; in some classifications placed in the family Pyrolaceae)

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