TEUCRIUM

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Teucrium mean? 

• TEUCRIUM (noun)
  The noun TEUCRIUM has 1 sense:

1. large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs; native to Mediterranean region to western Asia

  Familiarity information: TEUCRIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEUCRIUM (noun)

Meaning:

Large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs; native to Mediterranean region to western Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Teucrium; Teucrium

Hypernyms ("Teucrium" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Teucrium"):

germander (any of various plants of the genus Teucrium)

Holonyms ("Teucrium" 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)