GENUS VIOLA

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Meaning:

Large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions

Synonyms:

genus Viola; Viola

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Viola"):

viola (any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola)

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

family Violaceae; Violaceae; violet family (a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus)