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Brachycome

noun

mostly Australian herbs having basal or alternate leaves and loosely corymbose flower heads

• Syn: ↑genus Brachycome

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family

• Member Meronyms: ↑Swan River daisy, ↑Brachycome Iberidifolia

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\\braˈkikə(ˌ)mē, brəˈ-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from brachy- + Greek komē hair

: a genus of mostly Australian herbs (family Compositae) with basal or alternate leaves and solitary or loosely corymbose flower heads

Useful english dictionary. 2012.