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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 hyssopplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS AGASTACHE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS AGASTACHE (noun)


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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