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PHLOX

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Meaning:

Any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

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

chickweed phlox; Phlox bifida; Phlox stellaria; sand phlox (low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United States)

dwarf phlox; moss phlox; moss pink; mountain phlox; Phlox subulata (low tufted perennial phlox with needlelike evergreen leaves and pink or white flowers; native to United States and widely cultivated as a ground cover)

fringed pink; ground pink; Linanthus dianthiflorus; moss pink (low wiry-stemmed branching herb or southern California having fringed pink flowers)

evening-snow; Linanthus dichotomus (small California annual with white flowers)

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

genus Phlox (herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico)

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