HEUCHERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heuchera mean? 

• HEUCHERA (noun)
  The noun HEUCHERA has 1 sense:

1. genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers

  Familiarity information: HEUCHERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEUCHERA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Heuchera; Heuchera

Hypernyms ("Heuchera" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Heuchera"):

alumbloom; alumroot (any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera)

Heuchera cylindrica; poker alumroot; poker heuchera (plant with leathery heart-shaped leaf blades clustered at base of long stalks with greenish-white flowers clustered along the upper part; western North America)

coralbells; Heuchera sanguinea (perennial plant of the western United States having bright red flowers in feathery spikes; used as an ornamental)

Holonyms ("Heuchera" 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)