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    OCIMUM

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Basilplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Ocimum; Ocimum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Ocimum"):

    basil (any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum)

    Holonyms ("Ocimum" 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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