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Sebastiana — noun Mexican spurges • Syn: ↑genus Sebastiana • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Euphorbiaceae, ↑family Euphorbiaceae, ↑spurge family … Useful english dictionary
rosid dicot genus — noun a genus of dicotyledonous plants • Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus • Hyponyms: ↑Connarus, ↑genus Connarus, ↑Arachis, ↑genus Arachis, ↑Brya, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Euphorbiaceae — noun a family of plants of order Geraniales • Syn: ↑family Euphorbiaceae, ↑spurge family • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Geraniales, ↑order Geraniales … Useful english dictionary
family Euphorbiaceae — noun a family of plants of order Geraniales • Syn: ↑Euphorbiaceae, ↑spurge family • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Geraniales, ↑order Geraniales … Useful english dictionary
spurge family — noun a family of plants of order Geraniales • Syn: ↑Euphorbiaceae, ↑family Euphorbiaceae • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Geraniales, ↑order Geraniales … Useful english dictionary
jumping seed — noun seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble • Syn: ↑jumping bean, ↑Mexican jumping bean • Hypernyms: ↑seed • Part Holonyms: ↑Sebastiana, ↑genus Sebastiana … Useful english dictionary
Mexican jumping bean — noun seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble • Syn: ↑jumping bean, ↑jumping seed • Hypernyms: ↑seed • Part Holonyms: ↑Sebastiana, ↑genus Sebastiana … Useful english dictionary
jumping bean — ☆ jumping bean n. the seed of any of several Mexican plants (esp. genus Sebastiana) of the spurge family, containing the larvae of a small moth ( Cydia saltitans), which by its movements makes the seed jump or roll about … English World dictionary
Meanings of minor planet names: 1001–1500 — This is a list of the sources of minor planet names. Those meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against Lutz D. Schmadel s Dictionary of Minor Planet Names or Paul Herget s The Names of the Minor Planets… … Wikipedia
Malpighiales — ▪ plant order Introduction large order of flowering plants that includes 40 families, more than 700 genera, and almost 16,000 species. Many of the families are tropical and poorly known, but well known members of the order include Salicaceae (… … Universalium
