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ASPERULA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Asperula mean?
• ASPERULA (noun)
The noun ASPERULA has 1 sense:
1. woodruff
Familiarity information: ASPERULA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Woodruff
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Asperula; genus Asperula
Hypernyms ("Asperula" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Asperula"):
woodruff (any plant of the genus Asperula)
Holonyms ("Asperula" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)
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