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GENUS LEONOTIS

• GENUS LEONOTIS (noun)
The noun GENUS LEONOTIS has 1 sense:

1. small genus of tropical herbs and subshrubs of South Africa

Familiarity information: GENUS LEONOTIS used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS LEONOTIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Small genus of tropical herbs and subshrubs of South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Leonotis; Leonotis

Hypernyms ("genus Leonotis" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Leonotis"):

Cape dagga; dagga; Leonotis leonurus; red dagga; wilde dagga (relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco)

Leonotis nepetaefolia; Leonotis nepetifolia; lion's-ear (pantropical herb having whorls of striking lipped flowers; naturalized in United States)

Holonyms ("genus Leonotis" is a member of...):

family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; Lamiaceae; mint family (the mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemary)

"If you're in a hole, stop digging."
(English proverb)
"All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them."
(Native American proverb, Arapaho)
"All sunshine makes a desert."
(Arabic proverb)
"One who scorns is one who buys."
(Corsican proverb)

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