GENUS ANEMONE

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Meaning:

Perennial herbs with tuberous roots and beautiful flowers; of north and south temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Anemone"):

anemone; windflower (any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves)

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

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)

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