GENUS NIGELLA

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Meaning:

Erect annual Eurasian herbs

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Nigella" 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 Nigella"):

nigella (any plant of the genus Nigella)

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

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

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