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GENUS COLLINSIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Collinsia mean?
• GENUS COLLINSIA (noun)
The noun GENUS COLLINSIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States
Familiarity information: GENUS COLLINSIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Collinsia; genus Collinsia
Hypernyms ("genus Collinsia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Collinsia"):
Collinsia bicolor; Collinsia heterophylla; innocense; purple chinese houses (white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California)
Collinsia parviflora; maiden blue-eyed Mary (small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado)
blue-eyed Mary; Collinsia verna (eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Collinsia" 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)
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