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STANLEYA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Stanleya mean?
• STANLEYA (noun)
The noun STANLEYA has 1 sense:
1. prince's plume
Familiarity information: STANLEYA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prince's plume
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Stanleya; Stanleya
Hypernyms ("Stanleya" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Stanleya"):
Cleome pinnata; desert plume; prince's-plume; Stanleya pinnata (perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome)
Holonyms ("Stanleya" is a member of...):
Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)
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