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DRYAS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mountain avens

Synonyms:

Dryas; genus Dryas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Dryas"):

Dryas octopetala; mountain avens (creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers; widely distributed in northern portions of Eurasia and North America)

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

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

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