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    VERBASCUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leavesplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Verbascum; Verbascum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Verbascum"):

    flannel leaf; mullein; velvet plant (any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers)

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

    family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)

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