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    GENUS PRUNELLA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Type genus of the Prunellidaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Prunella; Prunella

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    bird genus (a genus of birds)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Prunella"):

    accentor (small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia)

    Holonyms ("genus Prunella" is a member of...):

    family Prunellidae; Prunellidae (hedge sparrow)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Prunella; Prunella

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Prunella"):

    heal all; Prunella vulgaris; self-heal (decumbent blue-flowered European perennial thought to possess healing properties; naturalized throughout North America)

    Holonyms ("genus Prunella" 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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