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    GENUS CENTAURIUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthersplay

    Synonyms:

    Centaurium; genus Centaurium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Centaurium"):

    centaury (any of various plants of the genus Centaurium)

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

    family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)

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