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GENUS LEPTARRHENA

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Meaning:

One species: leatherleaf saxifrage

Synonyms:

genus Leptarrhena; Leptarrhena

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Leptarrhena"):

leatherleaf saxifrage; Leptarrhena pyrolifolia (plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers; moist places of northwestern North America to Oregon and Idaho)

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

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)

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