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Webster 1913 Edition
Epigaea
‖
Epˊi-gæ′a
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ἐπί
upon + [GREEK] earth.] (Bot.)
An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (
E. repens
), the trailing arbutus. Definition 2024
Epigaea
Epigaea
Translingual
Epigaea repens
Proper noun
Epigaea f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – the trailing arbutus of eastern North America and its relatives in Japan and Georgia and northeastern Turkey.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids - clades; Ericales - order; Ericaceae - family; Ericoideae - subfamily; Phyllodoceae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Epigaea repens - type species; Epigaea asiatica, Epigaea gaultherioides - other species