GENUS TELLIMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tellima mean? 

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

1. genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS TELLIMA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tellima; Tellima

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Tellima"):

false alumroot; fringe cups; Tellima grandiflora (plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho)

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

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)