GENUS SIDERITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sideritis mean? 

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

1. genus of woolly aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs of Mediterranean region

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SIDERITIS (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of woolly aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs of Mediterranean region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sideritis; Sideritis

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

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

Holonyms ("genus Sideritis" 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)