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    GENUS EUSTOMA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    Eustoma; genus Eustoma

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Eustoma" 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 Eustoma"):

    bluebell; Eustoma grandiflorum; prairie gentian; tulip gentian (one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas)

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

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

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