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LAPPULA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Stickweed; beggar's lice

Synonyms:

genus Hackelia; genus Lappula; Hackelia; Lappula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Lappula" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lappula"):

beggar's lice; beggar lice (Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing)

Holonyms ("Lappula" is a member of...):

borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)

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