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WHITLAVIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does whitlavia mean?
• WHITLAVIA (noun)
The noun WHITLAVIA has 1 sense:
1. desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes
Familiarity information: WHITLAVIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
California bluebell; Phacelia minor; Phacelia whitlavia; whitlavia
Hypernyms ("whitlavia" is a kind of...):
phacelia; scorpion weed; scorpionweed (any plant of the genus Phacelia)
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