CLIFF PENSTEMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cliff penstemon mean? 

• CLIFF PENSTEMON (noun)
  The noun CLIFF PENSTEMON has 1 sense:

1. one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California

  Familiarity information: CLIFF PENSTEMON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIFF PENSTEMON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cliff penstemon; Penstemon rupicola; rock penstemon

Hypernyms ("cliff penstemon" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("cliff penstemon" is a member of...):

genus Penstemon; Penstemon (large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; mostly western North America)