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KITTEN-TAILS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kitten-tails mean? 

KITTEN-TAILS (noun)
  The noun KITTEN-TAILS has 1 sense:

1. a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowersplay

  Familiarity information: KITTEN-TAILS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


KITTEN-TAILS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("kitten-tails" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kitten-tails"):

Alpine besseya; Besseya alpina (small pale plant with dense spikes of pale bluish-violet flowers; of high cold meadows from Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico)

Holonyms ("kitten-tails" is a member of...):

Besseya; genus Besseya (genus of North American spring wildflowers)


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