GOLDEN SAXIFRAGE

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Meaning:

Any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium

Synonyms:

golden saxifrage; golden spleen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("golden saxifrage" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "golden saxifrage"):

Chrysosplenium americanum; water carpet; water mat (aquatic herb with yellowish flowers; central and western United States)

Holonyms ("golden saxifrage" is a member of...):

Chrysosplenium; genus Chrysosplenium (genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers)