noun
edelweiss
• Syn: ↑genus Leontopodium
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family
• Member Meronyms: ↑edelweiss, ↑Leontopodium alpinum
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\\ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈpōdēəm\ nounUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin leontopodion, a plant, lion's-foot, from Greek, from leont-, leōn lion + -podion -podium
: a small genus of herbs (family Compositae) that are natives of mountainous regions of Eurasia and So. America and have small discoid flower heads much exceeded by the white woolly black-tipped bracts
Useful english dictionary. 2012.