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SPRING BEAUTY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spring beauty mean?
• SPRING BEAUTY (noun)
The noun SPRING BEAUTY has 1 sense:
1. small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm
Familiarity information: SPRING BEAUTY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Clatonia lanceolata; spring beauty
Hypernyms ("spring beauty" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("spring beauty" is a member of...):
Claytonia; genus Claytonia (genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes)
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