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Armeria

noun

shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials

• Syn: ↑genus Armeria

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Plumbaginaceae, ↑family Plumbaginaceae, ↑leadwort family, ↑sea-lavender family

• Member Meronyms: ↑thrift

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\\ärˈmirēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin

: a genus of evergreen tufted herbs or subshrubs (family Plumbaginaceae) formerly included in Limonium but distinguished by narrow often linear leaves and flowers in dense globular heads — see thrift

Useful english dictionary. 2012.