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GENUS VERONICA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widespread genus of herbs with pink or white or blue or purple flowers: speedwell
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Veronica" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Veronica"):
speedwell; veronica (any plant of the genus Veronica)
field speedwell; Veronica agrestis (European plant with minute axillary blue flowers on long stalks; widely naturalized in America)
American brooklime; brooklime; Veronica americana (plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers)
brooklime; European brooklime; Veronica beccabunga (European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America)
Veronica anagallis-aquatica; Veronica michauxii; water speedwell (plant of wet places in Eurasia and America)
Holonyms ("genus Veronica" is a member of...):
family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)
