GENUS OENOTHERA

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Meaning:

Chiefly North American herbs with usually nocturnal flowers

Synonyms:

genus Oenothera; Oenothera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

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

evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)

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