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TELLIMA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America

Synonyms:

genus Tellima; Tellima

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Tellima"):

false alumroot; fringe cups; Tellima grandiflora (plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho)

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

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)

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