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XERANTHEMUM ANNUUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Xeranthemum annuum mean?
• XERANTHEMUM ANNUUM (noun)
The noun XERANTHEMUM ANNUUM has 1 sense:
1. mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere
Familiarity information: XERANTHEMUM ANNUUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
immortelle; Xeranthemum annuum
Hypernyms ("Xeranthemum annuum" is a kind of...):
everlasting; everlasting flower (any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)
Holonyms ("Xeranthemum annuum" is a member of...):
genus Xeranthemum (genus of annual densely hairy herbs of Mediterranean to southwestern Asia)
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