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GENUS AGASTACHE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Agastache mean?
• GENUS AGASTACHE (noun)
The noun GENUS AGASTACHE has 1 sense:
1. giant hyssop; Mexican hyssop
Familiarity information: GENUS AGASTACHE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Giant hyssop; Mexican hyssop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Agastache; genus Agastache
Hypernyms ("genus Agastache" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Agastache"):
giant hyssop (any of a number of aromatic plants of the genus Agastache)
Holonyms ("genus Agastache" 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)
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