COLLINSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Collinsia mean? 

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

1. genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLINSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Collinsia; genus Collinsia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Collinsia"):

Collinsia bicolor; Collinsia heterophylla; innocense; purple chinese houses (white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California)

Collinsia parviflora; maiden blue-eyed Mary (small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado)

blue-eyed Mary; Collinsia verna (eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers)

Holonyms ("Collinsia" 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)