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LACCOPETALUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One species: giant buttercup

Synonyms:

genus Laccopetalum; Laccopetalum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Laccopetalum" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Laccopetalum"):

giant buttercup; Laccopetalum giganteum (spectacular perennial native of wet montane grasslands of Peru; formerly included in genus Ranunculus)

Holonyms ("Laccopetalum" is a member of...):

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)

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