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    GENUS CHELONE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Herbaceous perennials: shellflowerplay

    Synonyms:

    Chelone; genus Chelone

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Chelone"):

    Chelone glabra; shell-flower; shellflower; snake-head; snakehead; turtlehead (showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple)

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

    family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)

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