| NOUN | plant | Comptonia, genus Comptonia | one species |
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| Meaning | One species: sweet fern. | |
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| Synonym | genus Comptonia | |
| Member of | Myricaceae, family Myricaceae, wax-myrtle family | constituting the order Myricales |
| Members | sweet fern, Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia | deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
| Spanish | comptonia, genus comptonia | |
| Catalan | comptonia, genus comptonia | |
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