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DELPHINIUM
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Irregular inflected form: delphinia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("delphinium" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delphinium"):
larkspur (any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium)
Holonyms ("delphinium" is a member of...):
genus Delphinium (large genus of chiefly perennial erect branching herbs of north temperate regions some poisonous)
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