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KALMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any plant of the genus Kalmia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("kalmia" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kalmia"):
American laurel; calico bush; Kalmia latifolia; mountain laurel; wood laurel (a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers)
bog kalmia; bog laurel; Kalmia polifolia; swamp laurel (laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath)
Kalmia angustifolia; lambkill; pig laurel; sheep laurel (North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock)
Holonyms ("kalmia" is a member of...):
genus Kalmia (erect evergreen shrubs: mountain laurel)
