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SIDERITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sideritis mean? 

SIDERITIS (noun)
  The noun SIDERITIS has 1 sense:

1. genus of woolly aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs of Mediterranean regionplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SIDERITIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of woolly aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs of Mediterranean region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sideritis; Sideritis

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

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

Holonyms ("Sideritis" 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)


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