noun
small genus of evergreen shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico
• Syn: ↑genus Eriodictyon
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Hydrophyllaceae, ↑family Hydrophyllaceae, ↑waterleaf family
• Member Meronyms: ↑yerba santa, ↑Eriodictyon californicum
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\\-ēˌän\ nounEtymology: New Latin, from erio- + Greek diktyon net, from dikein to throw; from the woolly netlike leaves
1. capitalized : a small genus of resinous shrubs (family Hydrophyllaceae) of southwestern No. America having finely reticulated leaves often woolly beneath and white or bluish flowers in scorpioid cymes — see yerba santa
Useful english dictionary. 2012.