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AMSONIA

• AMSONIA (noun)
The noun AMSONIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America

Familiarity information: AMSONIA used as a noun is very rare.

• AMSONIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amsonia; genus Amsonia

Hypernyms ("Amsonia" 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 "Amsonia"):

Amsonia tabernaemontana; blue star (subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes)

Holonyms ("Amsonia" is a member of...):

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)

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(Arabic proverb)
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(Dutch proverb)

Useful links:
Definition of magnoliopsid genus
Definition of dicot genus
Definition of family Apocynaceae
Definition of blue star
Definition of Amsonia tabernaemontana

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