noun
genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of western America lacking stinging hairs
• Syn: ↑Mentzelia
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Loasaceae, ↑family Loasaceae, ↑loasa family
• Member Meronyms: ↑blazing star, ↑Mentzelia livicaulis, ↑Mentzelia laevicaulis, ↑bartonia, ↑Mentzelia lindleyi
Useful english dictionary. 2012.