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DARLINGTONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Darlingtonia mean?
• DARLINGTONIA (noun)
The noun DARLINGTONIA has 1 sense:
1. one species: California pitcher plant
Familiarity information: DARLINGTONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: California pitcher plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Darlingtonia; genus Darlingtonia
Hypernyms ("Darlingtonia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Darlingtonia"):
California pitcher plant; Darlingtonia californica (marsh or bog herb having solitary pendulous yellow-green flowers and somewhat twisted pitchers with broad wings below)
Holonyms ("Darlingtonia" is a member of...):
family Sarraceniaceae; pitcher-plant family; Sarraceniaceae (insectivorous plants)
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