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GENUS NIEREMBERGIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Nierembergia"):

cupflower; nierembergia (any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers)

Nierembergia repens; Nierembergia rivularis; whitecup (prostrate woody South American herb with white tubular flowers often tinged with blue or rose)

Nierembergia frutescens; tall cupflower (shrubby Chilean herb having bluish-white tubular flowers used as an ornamental)

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

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

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