BRODIAEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brodiaea mean? 

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

1. any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRODIAEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium

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Nouns denoting plants

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

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

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

Brodiaea elegans; elegant brodiaea (brodiaea having an umbel of violet or blue-violet flowers atop a leafless stalk; northern Oregon to southern California)

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

genus Brodiaea (genus of western United States bulbous plants with basal leaves and variously colored flowers; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae)