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GENUS BLEPHILIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of North American herbs: wood mints
Synonyms:
Blephilia; genus Blephilia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Blephilia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Blephilia"):
wood mint (American herb of genus Blephilia with more or less hairy leaves and clusters of purplish or bluish flowers)
Blephilia hirsuta; hairy wood mint; Blephilia celiata; downy wood mint (a variety of wood mint)
Holonyms ("genus Blephilia" 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)
