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DESERT SAND VERBENA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does desert sand verbena mean? 

DESERT SAND VERBENA (noun)
  The noun DESERT SAND VERBENA has 1 sense:

1. soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexicoplay

  Familiarity information: DESERT SAND VERBENA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DESERT SAND VERBENA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Abronia villosa; desert sand verbena

Hypernyms ("desert sand verbena" is a kind of...):

sand verbena (any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena)


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