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HORTENSIA

English dictionary: Word overview

HORTENSIA (noun)
  The noun HORTENSIA has 2 senses:

1. deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue
2. very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads

  Familiarity information: HORTENSIA used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


HORTENSIA (noun)


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Meaning:

Deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hortensia; Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis

Hypernyms ("hortensia" is a kind of...):

hydrangea (any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea)

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

genus Hydrangea (type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)


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Meaning:

Very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

double gold; golden glow; Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia; hortensia

Hypernyms ("hortensia" is a kind of...):

cutleaved coneflower; Rudbeckia laciniata (tall leafy plant with erect branches ending in large yellow flower heads with downward-arching rays; grow in Rocky Mountains south to Arizona and east to the Atlantic coast)

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

genus Rudbeckia; Rudbeckia (North American perennial herbs with showy cone-shaped flower heads)


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