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Styphelia

noun

Australian heathlike shrubs

• Syn: ↑genus Styphelia

• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Epacridaceae, ↑family Epacridaceae, ↑epacris family

• Member Meronyms: ↑pink fivecorner, ↑Styphelia triflora

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\\stīˈfēlēə, -lyə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek styphelos rough + New Latin -ia; perhaps akin to Greek typtein to beat, strike — more at type

: a large genus of mostly Australasian heathlike shrubs (family Epacridaceae) having the calyx and corolla usually colored alike

Useful english dictionary. 2012.