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SCORPION WEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any plant of the genus Phacelia
Synonyms:
phacelia; scorpion weed; scorpionweed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("scorpion weed" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scorpion weed"):
California bluebell; Phacelia campanularia (annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers)
California bluebell; Phacelia minor; Phacelia whitlavia; whitlavia (desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes)
fiddleneck; Phacelia tanacetifolia (hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers)
Holonyms ("scorpion weed" is a member of...):
genus Phacelia (American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes)