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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants, belonging to the natural order Saxafragaceæ, tribe Saxafrageæ, and the type of Bartling's tribe Heuchereæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of the genus Heuchera of herbaceous perennial plants.

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

  • noun genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers

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From the genus name.

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