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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 Diapensia
Familiarity information: DIAPENSIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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