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Trilisa

noun

genus of herbs of southern United States

• Syn: ↑genus Trilisa

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family

• Member Meronyms: ↑wild vanilla, ↑Trilisa odoratissima

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\\ˈtriləsə, ˈtrīl-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, anagram of Liatris

: a genus of herbs (family Compositae) of the southern United States distinguished from Liatris by the corymbose panicles of flower heads and involucral bracts of two or three series only — see wild vanilla

Useful english dictionary. 2012.