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POLYGALA
Polygala, genus Polygala
(noun) type genus of the Polygalaceae: milkwort; senega; snakeroot
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
polygala (plural polygalas)
Any milkwort of the genus Polygala
Source: Wiktionary
Po*lyg"a*la, n. Etym: [L., milkwort, fr. Gr.
Definition: A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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