CLINTONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clintonia mean? 

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

1. any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLINTONIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clinton's lily; clintonia

Hypernyms ("clintonia" 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 "clintonia"):

Andrew's clintonia; Clintonia andrewsiana; red Clintonia (plant with nearly leafless stalk topped by a cluster of red or reddish lavender flowers; California to Oregon)

Clintonia borealis; heal all; yellow clintonia (common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits)

bride's bonnet; Clintonia uniflora; queen's cup (plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana)

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

genus Clintonia (sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae)