LEONOTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leonotis mean? 

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

1. small genus of tropical herbs and subshrubs of South Africa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEONOTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of tropical herbs and subshrubs of South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Leonotis; Leonotis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Leonotis"):

Cape dagga; dagga; Leonotis leonurus; red dagga; wilde dagga (relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco)

Leonotis nepetaefolia; Leonotis nepetifolia; lion's-ear (pantropical herb having whorls of striking lipped flowers; naturalized in United States)

Holonyms ("Leonotis" 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)