GENUS SATUREJA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Satureja mean? 

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

1. savory

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SATUREJA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Savory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Satureia; genus Satureja; Satureia; Satureja

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Satureja"):

savory (any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees)

Holonyms ("genus Satureja" 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)