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CHELONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chelone mean? 

CHELONE (noun)
  The noun CHELONE has 1 sense:

1. herbaceous perennials: shellflowerplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CHELONE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbaceous perennials: shellflower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chelone; genus Chelone

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Chelone"):

Chelone glabra; shell-flower; shellflower; snake-head; snakehead; turtlehead (showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple)

Holonyms ("Chelone" 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)


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