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TOLMIEA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One species: pickaback plant

Synonyms:

genus Tolmiea; Tolmiea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Tolmiea"):

pickaback plant; piggyback plant; Tolmiea menziesii; youth-on-age (vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk)

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

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)

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