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VACCARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Vaccaria mean?
• VACCARIA (noun)
The noun VACCARIA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: VACCARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cow-cockles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Vaccaria; Vaccaria
Hypernyms ("Vaccaria" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Vaccaria"):
cow cockle; cowherb; Saponaria vaccaria; Vaccaria hispanica; Vaccaria pyramidata (European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort)
Holonyms ("Vaccaria" is a member of...):
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))
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