noun
genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs: vegetable sheep
• Syn: ↑genus Haastia
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family
• Member Meronyms: ↑vegetable sheep, ↑sheep plant, ↑Haastia pulvinaris
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\\ˈhästēə\ noun (-s)Etymology: New Latin, from Sir John F.J. von Haast died 1887 German-born geologist and explorer in New Zealand + New Latin -ia
: raoulia 2
Useful english dictionary. 2012.