PHACELIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phacelia mean? 

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

1. any plant of the genus Phacelia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHACELIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Phacelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

phacelia; scorpion weed; scorpionweed

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phacelia"):

California bluebell; Phacelia campanularia (annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers)

California bluebell; Phacelia minor; Phacelia whitlavia; whitlavia (desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes)

fiddleneck; Phacelia tanacetifolia (hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers)

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

genus Phacelia (American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes)