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HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Hudsonia tomentosa mean?
• HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA (noun)
The noun HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA has 1 sense:
1. small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
Familiarity information: HUDSONIA TOMENTOSA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
beach heather; Hudsonia tomentosa; poverty grass
Hypernyms ("Hudsonia tomentosa" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("Hudsonia tomentosa" is a member of...):
genus Hudsonia; Hudsonia (small evergreen subshrubs of North America)
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