ABRONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Abronia mean? 

• ABRONIA (noun)
  The noun ABRONIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers

  Familiarity information: ABRONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABRONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Abronia; genus Abronia

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Abronia"):

sand verbena (any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena)

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

Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae (a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales)