noun
genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels
• Syn: ↑Samolus
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Primulaceae, ↑family Primulaceae, ↑primrose family
• Member Meronyms: ↑water pimpernel
Useful english dictionary. 2012.