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LEONURUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Leonurus mean?
• LEONURUS (noun)
The noun LEONURUS has 1 sense:
1. genus of stout Old World herbs having flowers in whorls
Familiarity information: LEONURUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of stout Old World herbs having flowers in whorls
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Leonurus; Leonurus
Hypernyms ("Leonurus" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Leonurus"):
Leonurus cardiaca; motherwort (bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers)
Holonyms ("Leonurus" 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)
Context examples
An herbal remedy containing parts of Leonurus cardiaca, a perennial plant in the mint family Lamiaceae.
(Motherwort, NCI Thesaurus)
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