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LOBELIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lobelia" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lobelia"):
cardinal flower; Indian pink; Lobelia cardinalis (North American lobelia having brilliant red flowers)
bladderpod; Indian tobacco; Lobelia inflata (North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic)
Lobelia dortmanna; water lobelia (erect perennial aquatic herb of Europe and North America having submerged spongy leaves and pendulous racemes of blue flowers above the water)
blue cardinal flower; great lobelia; Lobelia siphilitica (tall erect and very leafy perennial herb of eastern North America having dense spikes of blue flowers)
Holonyms ("lobelia" is a member of...):
genus Lobelia (in some classifications considered the type genus of a separate family Lobeliaceae)
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