GENUS SCABIOSA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; mainly Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Scabiosa"):

scabiosa; scabious (any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa)

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

Dipsacaceae; family Dipsacaceae (chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads)

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