genus loasa

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1. genus of tropical American prickly herbs or subshrubs (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dilleniid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	loasa,
definition	:	any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family loasaceae, loasa family, loasaceae,
definition	:	family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia (noun.plant)