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    PHACELIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any plant of the genus Phaceliaplay

    Synonyms:

    phacelia; scorpion weed; scorpionweed

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phacelia"):

    California bluebell; Phacelia campanularia (annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers)

    California bluebell; Phacelia minor; Phacelia whitlavia; whitlavia (desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes)

    fiddleneck; Phacelia tanacetifolia (hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers)

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

    genus Phacelia (American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes)

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