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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various North American plants of the genus Collinsia, which includes blue-eyed Mary.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of annual plants, of the natural order Scrophulariaceæ.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Collinsia, genus name, after Zaccheus Collins, (1764–1831), American botanist.]

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