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GENUS CIRCAEA

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Meaning:

Enchanter's nightshade

Synonyms:

Circaea; genus Circaea

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Circaea"):

enchanter's nightshade (any of several erect perennial rhizomatous herbs of the genus Circaea having white flowers that open at dawn; northern hemisphere)

Holonyms ("genus Circaea" is a member of...):

evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)

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