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penstemon
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun penstemon has 1 sense
- penstemon(n = noun.plant) genus penstemon - large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; mostly western North America; Array is a kind of asterid dicot genus
is a member of family scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family, scrophulariaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
penstemon, prop. n.
A large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; found mostly in Western North America. [WordNet 1.5]
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