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GENUS HALENIA

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Meaning:

Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians

Synonyms:

genus Halenia; Halenia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Halenia" 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 Halenia"):

spurred gentian (any of various plants of the genus Halenia having flowers with spurred lobes)

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

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

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