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GENUS PYROLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen; shinleaf
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Pyrola" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pyrola"):
pyrola; wintergreen (any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola)
Holonyms ("genus Pyrola" is a member of...):
family Pyrolaceae; Pyrolaceae; wintergreen family (evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia)