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AGROSTEMMA

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Meaning:

A caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles

Synonyms:

Agrostemma; genus Agrostemma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Agrostemma"):

Agrostemma githago; corn campion; corn cockle; crown-of-the-field (European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America)

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

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))

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