CULVERS ROOT

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Meaning:

A tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America

Synonyms:

Culver's physic; Culver's root; Culvers physic; Culvers root; Veronicastrum virginicum; whorlywort

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Culvers root" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Culvers root" is a member of...):

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)

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