BLEPHILIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Blephilia mean? 

• BLEPHILIA (noun)
  The noun BLEPHILIA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of North American herbs: wood mints

  Familiarity information: BLEPHILIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLEPHILIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of North American herbs: wood mints

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Blephilia; genus Blephilia

Hypernyms ("Blephilia" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Blephilia"):

wood mint (American herb of genus Blephilia with more or less hairy leaves and clusters of purplish or bluish flowers)

Blephilia hirsuta; hairy wood mint; Blephilia celiata; downy wood mint (a variety of wood mint)

Holonyms ("Blephilia" is a member of...):

family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; Lamiaceae; mint family (a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary)