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    GENUS LEPECHINIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A dicotyledonous genus of the family Labiataeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Lepechinia; genus Sphacele; Lepechinia; Sphacele

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Lepechinia"):

    Lepechinia calycina; pitcher sage; Sphacele calycina (California plant with woolly stems and leaves and large white flowers)

    Holonyms ("genus Lepechinia" 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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