GENUS PHACELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Phacelia mean? 

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

1. American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PHACELIA (noun)

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Meaning:

American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Phacelia"):

phacelia; scorpion weed; scorpionweed (any plant of the genus Phacelia)

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

family Hydrophyllaceae; Hydrophyllaceae; waterleaf family (perennial woodland herbs)