GENUS AMSINCKIA

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Meaning:

Rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks

Synonyms:

Amsinckia; genus Amsinckia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Amsinckia" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Amsinckia"):

Amsinckia intermedia; common amsinckia (annual of western United States with coiled spikes of yellow-orange coiled flowers)

Amsinckia grandiflora; large-flowered fiddleneck (annual of the western United States having large coiled flower spikes; a threatened species)

Holonyms ("genus Amsinckia" is a member of...):

borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)