LITHOSPERMUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lithospermum mean? 

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

1. annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITHOSPERMUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lithospermum; Lithospermum

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

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lithospermum"):

gromwell; Lithospermum officinale (European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands)

Lithospermum caroliniense; puccoon (perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment)

hoary puccoon; Indian paint; Lithospermum canescens (perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment)

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

borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)