BLUE CURLS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue curls mean? 

• BLUE CURLS (noun)
  The noun BLUE CURLS has 1 sense:

1. any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers

  Familiarity information: BLUE CURLS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE CURLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blue curls" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blue curls"):

black sage; California romero; Trichostema lanatum; wooly blue curls (an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico)

camphorweed; Trichostema lanceolatum; turpentine camphor weed; vinegarweed (aromatic plant of western United States)

bastard pennyroyal; Trichostema dichotomum (aromatic plant of the eastern United States)

Holonyms ("blue curls" is a member of...):

genus Trichostema; Trichostema (genus of North American aromatic herbs or subshrubs: blue curls)