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POTENTILLA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Potentilla mean?
• POTENTILLA (noun)
The noun POTENTILLA has 1 sense:
1. chiefly perennial northern hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil
Familiarity information: POTENTILLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly perennial northern hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Potentilla; Potentilla
Hypernyms ("Potentilla" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Potentilla"):
cinquefoil; five-finger (any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties)
Holonyms ("Potentilla" is a member of...):
family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)
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