GENUS SPRAGUEA

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Meaning:

Small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes

Synonyms:

genus Spraguea; Spraguea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "genus Spraguea"):

Calyptridium umbellatum; pussy's-paw; pussy-paw; pussy-paws; Spraguea umbellatum (pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America)

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

family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)