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PICKERINGIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pickeringia mean?
• PICKERINGIA (noun)
The noun PICKERINGIA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: PICKERINGIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: chaparral pea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pickeringia; Pickeringia
Hypernyms ("Pickeringia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Pickeringia"):
chaparral pea; Pickeringia montana; stingaree-bush (spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California)
Holonyms ("Pickeringia" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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