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SISKIYOU LEWISIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does siskiyou lewisia mean?
• SISKIYOU LEWISIA (noun)
The noun SISKIYOU LEWISIA has 1 sense:
1. evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California
Familiarity information: SISKIYOU LEWISIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Lewisia cotyledon; siskiyou lewisia
Hypernyms ("siskiyou lewisia" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Holonyms ("siskiyou lewisia" is a member of...):
genus Lewisia; Lewisia (genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers)
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