WILLOWHERB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does willowherb mean? 

• WILLOWHERB (noun)
  The noun WILLOWHERB has 1 sense:

1. a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs

  Familiarity information: WILLOWHERB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILLOWHERB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("willowherb" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "willowherb"):

Epilobium angustifolium; fireweed; giant willowherb; rosebay willowherb; wickup (tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant)

codlins-and-cream; Epilobium hirsutum; hairy willowherb (plant of Europe and Asia having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; introduced into North America)

Holonyms ("willowherb" is a member of...):

Epilobium; genus Epilobium (large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areas)