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    ECHIUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    Echium; genus Echium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    plant genus (a genus of plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Echium"):

    blue devil; blue thistle; blueweed; Echium vulgare; viper's bugloss (a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States)

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

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

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