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LINARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragon
Synonyms:
genus Linaria; Linaria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Linaria" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Linaria"):
butter-and-eggs; devil's flax; Linaria vulgaris; toadflax; wild snapdragon (common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America)
Holonyms ("Linaria" is a member of...):
family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)