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SAMOLUS

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Meaning:

Genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels

Synonyms:

genus Samolus; Samolus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Samolus"):

water pimpernel (a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus)

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

family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)

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