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POGOSTEMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pogostemon mean? 

POGOSTEMON (noun)
  The noun POGOSTEMON has 1 sense:

1. genus of Asiatic shrubs or trees whose leaves yield a fragrant oilplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


POGOSTEMON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Asiatic shrubs or trees whose leaves yield a fragrant oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pogostemon; Pogostemon

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Pogostemon"):

pachouli; patchouli; patchouly; Pogostemon cablin (small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes)

Holonyms ("Pogostemon" 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 


The essential oil extracted from the leaves of Pogostemon cablin.

(Patchouli Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientific name is Pogostemon cablin

(Patchouli, NCI Dictionary)



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