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Penstemon

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Noun

1. genus penstemon, penstemon

large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; mostly western North America

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Penstemon

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noun
a variant (esp US) of pentstemon

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Penstemon

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noun
any of a large genus (Penstemon) of chiefly North American plants of the figwort family, having five stamens, the fifth of which is bearded and sterile, and bearing tubular, showy, white, pink, red, blue, or purple flowers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Penstemon

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n.
Any of numerous plants of the genus Penstemon, native to North America, having opposite leaves, variously colored flowers with a usually two-lipped corolla, and capsules containing many seeds. Also called beardtongue.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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