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GENUS STELLARIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Common chickweed; stitchwort

Synonyms:

genus Stellaria; Stellaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Stellaria"):

chickweed (any of various plants of the genus Stellaria)

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

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))

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