GENUS AGALINIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Agalinis mean? 

• GENUS AGALINIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS AGALINIS has 1 sense:

1. semiparasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers; grows in the United States and West Indies

  Familiarity information: GENUS AGALINIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS AGALINIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Semiparasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers; grows in the United States and West Indies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agalinis; genus Agalinis

Hypernyms ("genus Agalinis" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("genus Agalinis" is a member of...):

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)