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GENUS LOASA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of tropical American prickly herbs or subshrubs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Loasa" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Loasa"):
loasa (any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Loasa" is a member of...):
family Loasaceae; loasa family; Loasaceae (family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia)
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