GENUS MERTENSIA

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Meaning:

A genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels

Synonyms:

genus Mertensia; Mertensia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Mertensia"):

Mertensia virginica; Virginia bluebell; Virginia cowslip (smooth erect herb of eastern North America having entire leaves and showy blue flowers that are pink in bud)

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

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