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GENUS DARLINGTONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Darlingtonia mean? 

GENUS DARLINGTONIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS DARLINGTONIA has 1 sense:

1. one species: California pitcher plantplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS DARLINGTONIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: California pitcher plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Darlingtonia; genus Darlingtonia

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Darlingtonia"):

California pitcher plant; Darlingtonia californica (marsh or bog herb having solitary pendulous yellow-green flowers and somewhat twisted pitchers with broad wings below)

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

family Sarraceniaceae; pitcher-plant family; Sarraceniaceae (insectivorous plants)


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