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SNOW-IN-SUMMER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
Synonyms:
Cerastium tomentosum; love-in-a-mist; snow-in-summer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("snow-in-summer" is a kind of...):
chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse-ear chickweed; mouse ear; mouse eared chickweed (any of various plants related to the common chickweed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk
Synonyms:
Euphorbia marginata; ghost weed; snow-in-summer; snow-on-the-mountain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("snow-in-summer" is a kind of...):
spurge (any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice)
Holonyms ("snow-in-summer" is a member of...):
Euphorbia; genus Euphorbia (type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice)
