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GENUS DIAPENSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Diapensia mean? 

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

1. type genus of Diapensiaceaeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS DIAPENSIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of Diapensiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Diapensia"):

diapensia (any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia)

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

diapensia family; Diapensiaceae; family Diapensiaceae (north temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales)


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