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LAMIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits
Synonyms:
genus Lamium; Lamium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Lamium" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Lamium"):
dead nettle (any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips)
Lamium album; white dead nettle (European dead nettle with white flowers)
henbit; Lamium amplexicaule (Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers)
Holonyms ("Lamium" 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)
