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TWINFLOWER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs

Synonyms:

Linnaea borealis; twinflower

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Nouns denoting plants

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

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

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

American twinflower; Linnaea borealis americana (similar to the twinflower of northern Europe and Asia)

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

genus Linnaea; Linnaea (one species: twinflower)

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