GENUS ELSHOLTZIA

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Meaning:

Genus of Asiatic and African aromatic herbs

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Elsholtzia"):

elsholtzia (any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes)

Holonyms ("genus Elsholtzia" 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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