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GENUS PHLOX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Phlox" is a kind of...):
plant genus (a genus of plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Phlox"):
phlox (any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers)
chickweed phlox; Phlox bifida; Phlox stellaria; sand phlox (low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United States)
Holonyms ("genus Phlox" is a member of...):
family Polemoniaceae; phlox family; Polemoniaceae (a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers)
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