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VERNATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vernation mean?
• VERNATION (noun)
The noun VERNATION has 1 sense:
1. (botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens
Familiarity information: VERNATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("vernation" is a kind of...):
arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Holonyms ("vernation" is a part of...):
leaf bud (a bud from which leaves (but not flowers) develop)
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