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GENUS TELLIMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America
Synonyms:
genus Tellima; Tellima
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Tellima" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tellima"):
false alumroot; fringe cups; Tellima grandiflora (plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho)
Holonyms ("genus Tellima" is a member of...):
family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)
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