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    GENUS SAMOLUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernelsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Samolus; Samolus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Samolus" 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 Samolus"):

    water pimpernel (a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus)

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

    family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)

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