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    ZIGADENE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonousplay

    Synonyms:

    death camas; zigadene

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

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

    alkali grass; Zigadenus elegans (plant of western North America having grasslike leaves and greenish-white flowers)

    white camas; Zigadenus glaucus (plant of eastern and central North America having creamy white flowers tinged with brown or purple; poisonous especially to grazing animals)

    poison camas; Zigadenus nuttalli (a common perennial death camas; Tennessee to Kansas to Texas)

    grassy death camas; Zigadenus venenosus; Zigadenus venenosus gramineus (plant of western North America to Mexico; poisonous especially to grazing animals)

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

    genus Zigadenus; Zigadenus (genus of mostly North American poisonous plants; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)

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