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FRINGE CUPS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho
Synonyms:
false alumroot; fringe cups; Tellima grandiflora
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fringe cups" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Holonyms ("fringe cups" is a member of...):
genus Tellima; Tellima (genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America)