GENUS BALLOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Ballota mean? 

• GENUS BALLOTA (noun)
  The noun GENUS BALLOTA has 1 sense:

1. perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BALLOTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ballota; genus Ballota

Hypernyms ("genus Ballota" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Ballota"):

Ballota nigra; black archangel; black horehound; fetid horehound; stinking horehound (ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Ballota" 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)