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GENUS ANCHUSA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Anchusa mean?
• GENUS ANCHUSA (noun)
The noun GENUS ANCHUSA has 1 sense:
1. rough and hairy Old World herbs
Familiarity information: GENUS ANCHUSA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rough and hairy Old World herbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Anchusa" is a kind of...):
plant genus (a genus of plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Anchusa"):
anchusa (any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Anchusa" is a member of...):
borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)
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"Need excavates the trick." (Arabic proverb)
"Gentle doctors cause smelly wounds." (Dutch proverb)