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GENUS EPILOBIUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areas
Synonyms:
Epilobium; genus Epilobium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Epilobium" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Epilobium"):
willowherb (a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs)
Epilobium angustifolium; fireweed; giant willowherb; rosebay willowherb; wickup (tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant)
California fuchsia; Epilobium canum canum; humming bird's trumpet; Zauschneria californica (shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Epilobium" is a member of...):
evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)
