GENUS HEPATICA

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Meaning:

Small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions; allied to genus Anemone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Hepatica"):

hepatica; liverleaf (any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions)

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

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)

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