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    GENUS COLLINSIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of hardy annual herbs of western United Statesplay

    Synonyms:

    Collinsia; genus Collinsia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Collinsia"):

    Collinsia bicolor; Collinsia heterophylla; innocense; purple chinese houses (white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California)

    Collinsia parviflora; maiden blue-eyed Mary (small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado)

    blue-eyed Mary; Collinsia verna (eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers)

    Holonyms ("genus Collinsia" 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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