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VIRGINIA SPRING BEAUTY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Virginia spring beauty mean?
• VIRGINIA SPRING BEAUTY (noun)
The noun VIRGINIA SPRING BEAUTY has 1 sense:
1. small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America
Familiarity information: VIRGINIA SPRING BEAUTY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VIRGINIA SPRING BEAUTY (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Claytonia virginica; Virginia spring beauty
Hypernyms ("Virginia spring beauty" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("Virginia 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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