besseya

English Thesaurus

1. genus of North American spring wildflowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	asterid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	kitten-tails,
definition	:	a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family, scrophulariaceae,
definition	:	a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant)