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STANLEYA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prince's plume

Synonyms:

genus Stanleya; Stanleya

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Stanleya"):

Cleome pinnata; desert plume; prince's-plume; Stanleya pinnata (perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome)

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

Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)

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