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SARCODES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Snow plant; in some classifications placed in family Pyrolaceae

Synonyms:

genus Sarcodes; Sarcodes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Sarcodes"):

Sarcodes sanguinea; snow plant (a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground)

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

family Monotropaceae; Monotropaceae (used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes)

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