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BRODIAEA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("brodiaea" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brodiaea"):
Brodiaea elegans; elegant brodiaea (brodiaea having an umbel of violet or blue-violet flowers atop a leafless stalk; northern Oregon to southern California)
Holonyms ("brodiaea" is a member of...):
genus Brodiaea (genus of western United States bulbous plants with basal leaves and variously colored flowers; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae)
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