genus Dicentra

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1.genus Dicentra - North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowersDicentradilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbsfamily Fumariaceae, Fumariaceae, fumitory family - erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel cornbleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis, lyreflower, lyre-flower - garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowersDicentra cucullaria, Dutchman's breeches - delicate spring-flowering plant of the eastern United States having white flowers with double spurs