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GENUS LEWISIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers
Synonyms:
genus Lewisia; Lewisia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Lewisia" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Lewisia"):
Lewisia cotyledon; siskiyou lewisia (evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California)
bitterroot; Lewisia rediviva (showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower)
Holonyms ("genus Lewisia" is a member of...):
family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)
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