GENUS SALVIA

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Meaning:

Large genus of shrubs and subshrubs of the mint family varying greatly in habit: sage

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Salvia"):

sage; salvia (any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb)

Holonyms ("genus Salvia" 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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