GENUS SCHIZOPETALON

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Meaning:

Small genus of South American herbs grown for its flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Schizopetalon"):

schizopetalon; Schizopetalon walkeri (a dainty South American annual having deeply pinnatifid leaves and racemes of fringed almond-scented purple-white flowers)

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

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)

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