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LADY'S TOBACCO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lady's tobacco mean? 

LADY'S TOBACCO (noun)
  The noun LADY'S TOBACCO has 1 sense:

1. North American perennial propagated by means of runnersplay

  Familiarity information: LADY'S TOBACCO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LADY'S TOBACCO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

North American perennial propagated by means of runners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Antennaria plantaginifolia; ladies' tobacco; lady's tobacco

Hypernyms ("lady's tobacco" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("lady's tobacco" is a member of...):

Antennaria; genus Antennaria (small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristles)


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