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SAND VERBENA

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Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sand verbena" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

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

Abronia elliptica; snowball; sweet sand verbena (plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions)

Abronia fragrans; sweet sand verbena (taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers)

Abronia latifolia; yellow sand verbena (plant having hemispherical heads of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to British Columbia)

Abronia maritima; beach pancake (plant having hemispherical heads of wine-red flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to Mexico)

Abronia umbellata; beach sand verbena; pink sand verbena (prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California)

Abronia villosa; desert sand verbena (soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico)

Holonyms ("sand verbena" is a member of...):

Abronia; genus Abronia (genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers)

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