samolus

English Thesaurus

1. genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	water pimpernel,
definition	:	a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family primulaceae, primrose family, primulaceae,
definition	:	a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere (noun.plant)