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GENUS DELPHINIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large genus of chiefly perennial erect branching herbs of north temperate regions some poisonous
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Delphinium" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Delphinium"):
delphinium (any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances)
Holonyms ("genus Delphinium" is a member of...):
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)
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