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noun
A member of the genus Lobelia, flowering plants in the Lobelioideae subfamily of family Campanulaceae, containing many species, some of which are garden plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: cardinal flower, Indian pink, Lobelia cardinalis, Indian tobacco, bladderpod, Lobelia inflata, water lobelia, Lobelia dortmanna, great lobelia, blue cardinal flower, Lobelia siphilitica
History
Internationalism. Learned borrowing from translingual Lobelia.
Across languages
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
