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ALLIONIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of chiefly American herbs
Synonyms:
Allionia; genus Allionia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Allionia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Allionia"):
Allionia incarnata; trailing four o'clock; trailing windmills (trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico)
Holonyms ("Allionia" is a member of...):
Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae (a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales)
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