GLECHOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Glechoma mean? 

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

1. ground ivy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLECHOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ground ivy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Glechoma; Glechoma

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Glechoma"):

alehoof; field balm; gill-over-the-ground; Glechoma hederaceae; ground ivy; Nepeta hederaceae; runaway robin (trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta)

Holonyms ("Glechoma" 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)