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GENUS CHIMAPHILA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Chimaphila mean?
• GENUS CHIMAPHILA (noun)
The noun GENUS CHIMAPHILA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of evergreen herbs with long creeping rootstocks and shining leaves; North America; Europe; east Asia
Familiarity information: GENUS CHIMAPHILA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of evergreen herbs with long creeping rootstocks and shining leaves; North America; Europe; east Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Chimaphila; genus Chimaphila
Hypernyms ("genus Chimaphila" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Chimaphila"):
pipsissewa; prince's pine (any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila)
Holonyms ("genus Chimaphila" is a member of...):
family Pyrolaceae; Pyrolaceae; wintergreen family (evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia)
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