GENUS LEONURUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Leonurus mean? 

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

1. genus of stout Old World herbs having flowers in whorls

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS LEONURUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of stout Old World herbs having flowers in whorls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Leonurus; Leonurus

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Leonurus"):

Leonurus cardiaca; motherwort (bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Leonurus" 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)