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LEWISIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers

Synonyms:

genus Lewisia; Lewisia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Lewisia"):

Lewisia cotyledon; siskiyou lewisia (evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California)

bitterroot; Lewisia rediviva (showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower)

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

family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)

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