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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 flowers
Familiarity information: KITTEN-TAILS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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