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PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pyxidanthera barbulata mean?
• PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA (noun)
The noun PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA has 1 sense:
1. creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
Familiarity information: PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
pixie; pixy; Pyxidanthera barbulata; pyxie
Hypernyms ("Pyxidanthera barbulata" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("Pyxidanthera barbulata" is a member of...):
genus Pyxidanthera; Pyxidanthera (one species: pyxie; the eastern United States)
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