DELPHINIUM (delphinia)

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Irregular inflected form: delphinia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does delphinium mean? 

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

1. any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELPHINIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances

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Nouns denoting plants

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delphinium"):

larkspur (any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium)

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

genus Delphinium (large genus of chiefly perennial erect branching herbs of north temperate regions some poisonous)