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diapensia

noun

any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia

• Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Diapensia

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\\ˌdīəˈpensēə\ noun

Etymology: New Latin, perhaps irregular from Greek dia pente by fives + New Latin -ia; from the five-leaved calyx

1. capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Diapensiaceae) of boreal dwarf evergreen plants with small crowded coriaceous leaves and flowers on short peduncles

2. -s : any plant of the genus Diapensia

Useful english dictionary. 2012.