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GENUS KOELLIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Koellia mean?
• GENUS KOELLIA (noun)
The noun GENUS KOELLIA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GENUS KOELLIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
American mountain mint
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Koellia; genus Pycnanthemum; Koellia; Pycnanthemum
Hypernyms ("genus Koellia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Koellia"):
mountain mint (any of a number of perennial herbs of the genus Pycnanthemum; eastern North America and California)
Holonyms ("genus Koellia" 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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