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ECHIUM

Dictionary entry overview: What does Echium mean?

• ECHIUM (noun)
The noun ECHIUM has 1 sense:

1. a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae

Familiarity information: ECHIUM used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ECHIUM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Echium; genus Echium

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

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Echium"):

blue devil; blue thistle; blueweed; Echium vulgare; viper's bugloss (a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States)

Holonyms ("Echium" 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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