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GENUS STACHYS

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

1. large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia

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• GENUS STACHYS (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Stachys; Stachys

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Stachys"):

dead nettle; hedge nettle; Stachys sylvatica (foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome)

hedge nettle; Stachys palustris (perennial herb with an odorless rhizome widespread in moist places in northern hemisphere)

Holonyms ("genus Stachys" 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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