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RESEDA

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Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Reseda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reseda"):

mignonette; Reseda odorata; sweet reseda (Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance)

dyer's mignonette; dyer's rocket; Reseda luteola; weld (European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America)

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

genus Reseda (Old World genus of herbs having racemose flowers: mignonette; dyer's rocket)

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