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HORTENSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads
Synonyms:
double gold; golden glow; hortensia; Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hortensia" is a kind of...):
cutleaved coneflower; Rudbeckia laciniata (tall leafy plant with erect branches ending in large yellow flower heads with downward-arching rays; grow in Rocky Mountains south to Arizona and east to the Atlantic coast)
Holonyms ("hortensia" is a member of...):
genus Rudbeckia; Rudbeckia (North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue
Synonyms:
hortensia; Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("hortensia" is a kind of...):
hydrangea (any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea)
Holonyms ("hortensia" is a member of...):
genus Hydrangea (type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)
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