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GENUS SUKSDORFIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small genus of rhizomatous herbs of northwestern America and South America
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Suksdorfia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Suksdorfia"):
suksdorfia (any of several American plants of the genus Suksdorfia having orbicular to kidney-shaped somewhat succulent leaves and white or rose or violet flowers in terminal panicles)
Suksdorfia violaceae; violet suksdorfia (slender delicate plant with wide roundish deeply lobed leaves and deep pink to violet funnel-shaped flowers; British Columbia to northern Oregon and west to Idaho and Montana)
Holonyms ("genus Suksdorfia" is a member of...):
family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)
