GENUS SABBATIA

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Meaning:

Genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Sabbatia" 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)

Meronyms (members of "genus Sabbatia"):

sabbatia (any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes)

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

family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)

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