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GENUS ABRONIA

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Meaning:

Genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers

Synonyms:

Abronia; genus Abronia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Abronia" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Abronia"):

sand verbena (any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena)

Holonyms ("genus Abronia" is a member of...):

Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae (a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales)

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