GENUS THYMUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Thymus mean? 

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

1. large genus of Old World mints: thyme

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS THYMUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of Old World mints: thyme

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Thymus; Thymus

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Thymus"):

thyme (any of various mints of the genus Thymus)

Holonyms ("genus Thymus" 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)