noun
American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Hydrophyllaceae, ↑family Hydrophyllaceae, ↑waterleaf family
• Member Meronyms: ↑scorpionweed, ↑scorpion weed, ↑phacelia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.