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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 Californiaplay

  Familiarity information: SISKIYOU LEWISIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SISKIYOU LEWISIA (noun)


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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