AMERICAN PENNYROYAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American pennyroyal mean? 

• AMERICAN PENNYROYAL (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN PENNYROYAL has 1 sense:

1. erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN PENNYROYAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN PENNYROYAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American pennyroyal; Hedeoma pulegioides; pennyroyal

Hypernyms ("American pennyroyal" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (substance of "American pennyroyal"):

hedeoma oil; pennyroyal oil (aromatic oil from American pennyroyal)

Holonyms ("American pennyroyal" is a member of...):

genus Hedeoma; Hedeoma (small genus of American herbs (American pennyroyal))