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CERASTIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mouse-eared chickweed

Synonyms:

Cerastium; genus Cerastium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Cerastium"):

chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse-ear chickweed; mouse ear; mouse eared chickweed (any of various plants related to the common chickweed)

Holonyms ("Cerastium" 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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