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GENUS TEUCRIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Teucrium mean?
• GENUS TEUCRIUM (noun)
The noun GENUS TEUCRIUM has 1 sense:
1. large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs; native to Mediterranean region to western Asia
Familiarity information: GENUS TEUCRIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs; native to Mediterranean region to western Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Teucrium; Teucrium
Hypernyms ("genus Teucrium" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Teucrium"):
germander (any of various plants of the genus Teucrium)
Holonyms ("genus Teucrium" 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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