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GENUS PLECTRANTHUS

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

1. large genus of ornamental flowering plants; includes some plants often placed in the genus Coleus

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

• GENUS PLECTRANTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

genus Plectranthus ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Large genus of ornamental flowering plants; includes some plants often placed in the genus Coleus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Plectranthus"):

plectranthus (any of various ornamental plants of the genus Plectranthus)

Holonyms ("genus Plectranthus" 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)

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(English proverb)
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(Breton proverb)
"A tree starts with a seed."
(Arabic proverb)
"One swats the fly only if it annoys that person."
(Cypriot proverb)

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