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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 bristles
Synonyms:
Antennaria; genus Antennaria
Classified under:
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)