GENUS DIGITALIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of Eurasian herbs having alternate leaves and racemes of showy bell-shaped flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Digitalis"):

digitalis; foxglove (any of several plants of the genus Digitalis)

Holonyms ("genus Digitalis" 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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