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    STANLEYA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Prince's plumeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Stanleya; Stanleya

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Stanleya"):

    Cleome pinnata; desert plume; prince's-plume; Stanleya pinnata (perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome)

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

    Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)

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