XERANTHEMUM

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Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Xeranthemum native to southern Europe having chaffy or silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

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

genus Xeranthemum (genus of annual densely hairy herbs of Mediterranean to southwestern Asia)

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