GENUS PHYSOSTEGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Physostegia mean? 

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

1. genus of North American perennial herbs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PHYSOSTEGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of North American perennial herbs

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Physostegia"):

physostegia (any of various plants of the genus Physostegia having sessile linear to oblong leaves and showy white or rose or lavender flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Physostegia" 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)