BESSEYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Besseya mean? 

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

1. genus of North American spring wildflowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESSEYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of North American spring wildflowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Besseya; genus Besseya

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Besseya"):

kitten-tails (a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers)

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

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)