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GALIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers

Synonyms:

Galium; genus Galium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Galium"):

bedstraw (any of several plants of the genus Galium)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

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