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GENUS RHEXIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Rhexia mean?

• GENUS RHEXIA (noun)
The noun GENUS RHEXIA has 1 sense:

1. deer grass

Familiarity information: GENUS RHEXIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS RHEXIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Deer grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Rhexia; Rhexia

Hypernyms ("genus Rhexia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Rhexia"):

deer grass; meadow beauty (any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America)

Holonyms ("genus Rhexia" is a member of...):

family Melastomaceae; family Melastomataceae; meadow-beauty family; Melastomaceae; Melastomataceae (a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals)

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