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ILIAMNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Iliamna mean? 

ILIAMNA (noun)
  The noun ILIAMNA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs; some often placed in other generaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ILIAMNA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs; some often placed in other genera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Iliamna; Iliamna

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Iliamna"):

Iliamna remota; Sphaeralcea remota; wild hollyhock (a rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea)

Iliamna acerifolia; Iliamna ruvularis; mountain hollyhock (perennial of northwestern United States and western Canada resembling a hollyhock and having white or pink flowers)

Holonyms ("Iliamna" is a member of...):

family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)


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