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GENUS AUREOLARIA

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Meaning:

Small genus of North American herbs often root-parasitic and bearing golden-yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia

Synonyms:

Aureolaria; genus Aureolaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Aureolaria" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Aureolaria"):

Aureolaria pedicularia; false foxglove; Gerardia pedicularia (multi-stemmed North American annual having solitary axillary dark golden-yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia)

Aureolaria virginica; false foxglove; Gerardia virginica (sparsely branched North American perennial with terminal racemes of bright yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia)

Holonyms ("genus Aureolaria" 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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