GENUS CALAMINTHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Calamintha mean? 

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

1. calamint

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CALAMINTHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Calamint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calamintha; genus Calamintha

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Calamintha"):

calamint (perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America)

Holonyms ("genus Calamintha" 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)