PURPLE SAXIFRAGE

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Meaning:

Plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America

Synonyms:

purple saxifrage; Saxifraga oppositifolia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("purple saxifrage" is a kind of...):

breakstone; rockfoil; saxifrage (any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga)

Holonyms ("purple saxifrage" is a member of...):

genus Saxifraga; Saxifraga (type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage)

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