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TRICHOSTEMA

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Meaning:

Genus of North American aromatic herbs or subshrubs: blue curls

Synonyms:

genus Trichostema; Trichostema

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Trichostema"):

blue curls (any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers)

black sage; California romero; Trichostema lanatum; wooly blue curls (an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico)

Holonyms ("Trichostema" 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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