LABRADOR TEA

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Meaning:

Evergreen shrub of eastern North America having white or creamy bell-shaped flowers and dark green hairy leaves used for tea during American Revolution

Synonyms:

crystal tea; Labrador tea; Ledum groenlandicum

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Labrador tea" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Labrador tea" is a member of...):

genus Ledum; Ledum (evergreen shrubs of north temperate regions)

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