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    ANTENNARIA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristlesplay

    Synonyms:

    Antennaria; genus Antennaria

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Antennaria"):

    Antennaria plantaginifolia; ladies' tobacco; lady's tobacco (North American perennial propagated by means of runners)

    Antennaria dioica; cat's feet; cat's foot; pussytoes (low-growing perennial herb having leaves with whitish down and clusters of small white flowers)

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

    aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)

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