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GENUS VERBASCUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Verbascum mean?
• GENUS VERBASCUM (noun)
The noun GENUS VERBASCUM has 1 sense:
1. genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves
Familiarity information: GENUS VERBASCUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Verbascum; Verbascum
Hypernyms ("genus Verbascum" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Verbascum"):
flannel leaf; mullein; velvet plant (any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Verbascum" is a member of...):
family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)
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