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GENUS NIEREMBERGIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Nierembergia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Nierembergia"):
cupflower; nierembergia (any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers)
Nierembergia repens; Nierembergia rivularis; whitecup (prostrate woody South American herb with white tubular flowers often tinged with blue or rose)
Nierembergia frutescens; tall cupflower (shrubby Chilean herb having bluish-white tubular flowers used as an ornamental)
Holonyms ("genus Nierembergia" is a member of...):
family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)
