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SARCODES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Snow plant; in some classifications placed in family Pyrolaceae
Synonyms:
genus Sarcodes; Sarcodes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Sarcodes" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Sarcodes"):
Sarcodes sanguinea; snow plant (a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground)
Holonyms ("Sarcodes" is a member of...):
family Monotropaceae; Monotropaceae (used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes)
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