GENUS ECHIUM
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Echium mean? • GENUS ECHIUM (noun)
The noun GENUS ECHIUM has 1 sense:
1. a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
Familiarity information: GENUS ECHIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS ECHIUM (noun)
Meaning:
A genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Echium; genus Echium
Hypernyms ("genus Echium" is a kind of...):
plant genus (a genus of plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus 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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