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    GENUS BALLOTA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehoundplay

    Synonyms:

    Ballota; genus Ballota

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Ballota" is a kind of...):

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Ballota"):

    Ballota nigra; black archangel; black horehound; fetid horehound; stinking horehound (ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers)

    Holonyms ("genus Ballota" 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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