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GENUS VERBASCUM

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Verbascum mean?

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

1. genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS VERBASCUM (noun)

Sense 1

genus Verbascum ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Verbascum; Verbascum

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Verbascum"):

flannel leaf; mullein; velvet plant (any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers)

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

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)

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