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CENTAURIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers
Synonyms:
Centaurium; genus Centaurium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Centaurium" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Centaurium"):
centaury (any of various plants of the genus Centaurium)
Holonyms ("Centaurium" is a member of...):
family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)