GERMANDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does germander mean? 

• GERMANDER (noun)
  The noun GERMANDER has 1 sense:

1. any of various plants of the genus Teucrium

  Familiarity information: GERMANDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GERMANDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Teucrium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("germander" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "germander"):

American germander; Teucrium canadense; wood sage (subshrub with serrate leaves and cream-colored to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America)

Teucrium chamaedrys; wall germander (European perennial subshrub with red-purple or bright rose flowers with red and white spots)

cat thyme; marum; Teucrium marum (Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers; attractive to cats)

Teucrium scorodonia; wood sage (European germander with one-sided racemes of yellow flowers; naturalized in North America)

Holonyms ("germander" is a member of...):

genus Teucrium; Teucrium (large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs; native to Mediterranean region to western Asia)