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LITHOSPERMUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia

Synonyms:

genus Lithospermum; Lithospermum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Lithospermum" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lithospermum"):

gromwell; Lithospermum officinale (European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands)

Lithospermum caroliniense; puccoon (perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment)

hoary puccoon; Indian paint; Lithospermum canescens (perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment)

Holonyms ("Lithospermum" is a member of...):

borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)

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