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SAND VERBENA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sand verbena mean?
• SAND VERBENA (noun)
The noun SAND VERBENA has 1 sense:
1. any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena
Familiarity information: SAND VERBENA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("sand verbena" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sand verbena"):
Abronia elliptica; snowball; sweet sand verbena (plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions)
Abronia fragrans; sweet sand verbena (taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers)
Abronia latifolia; yellow sand verbena (plant having hemispherical heads of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to British Columbia)
Abronia maritima; beach pancake (plant having hemispherical heads of wine-red flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to Mexico)
Abronia umbellata; beach sand verbena; pink sand verbena (prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California)
Abronia villosa; desert sand verbena (soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico)
Holonyms ("sand verbena" is a member of...):
Abronia; genus Abronia (genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers)
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