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SAMOLUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels
Synonyms:
genus Samolus; Samolus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Samolus" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Samolus"):
water pimpernel (a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus)
Holonyms ("Samolus" is a member of...):
family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)
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