DICENTRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dicentra mean? 

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

1. North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DICENTRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dicentra; genus Dicentra

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Dicentra"):

bleeding heart; Dicentra spectabilis; lyre-flower; lyreflower (garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers)

Dicentra cucullaria; Dutchman's breeches (delicate spring-flowering plant of the eastern United States having white flowers with double spurs)

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

family Fumariaceae; Fumariaceae; fumitory family (erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn)