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COUNTRY BORAGE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
An aromatic fleshy herb of India and Ceylon to South Africa; sometimes placed in genus Plectranthus
Synonyms:
Coleus amboinicus; Coleus aromaticus; country borage; Plectranthus amboinicus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("country borage" is a kind of...):
coleus; flame nettle (any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers)