Hypernym

noun

genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

Member_meronym

noun

chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs

noun

subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes

Amsonia 1

noundomain: plant

Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]

English

Definition

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

Synonyms

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

Member_holonym

noun

chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs

noun

subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes