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DIAPENSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diapensia mean? 

DIAPENSIA (noun)
  The noun DIAPENSIA has 1 sense:

1. any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensiaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


DIAPENSIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

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

genus Diapensia (type genus of Diapensiaceae)


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