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Agalinis

noun

semiparasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers; grows in the United States and West Indies

• Syn: ↑genus Agalinis

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Scrophulariaceae, ↑family Scrophulariaceae, ↑figwort family, ↑foxglove family

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\\ˌagəˈlīnə̇s\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, irregular from Greek aga, agē wonder + Latin linum flax

: a genus of flaxlike American herbs (family Scrophulariaceae) with opposite sessile leaves and irregular tubular mostly purple flowers

Useful english dictionary. 2012.