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SHORTIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("shortia" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shortia"):
oconee bells; Shortia galacifolia (plant of southeastern United States having solitary white funnel-shaped flowers flushed with pink and large glossy green leaves that turn bronze-red in fall)
Holonyms ("shortia" is a member of...):
genus Shortia (evergreen perennial herbs of North America and eastern Asia: oconee bells)
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