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BALLOTA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ballota mean?
• BALLOTA (noun)
The noun BALLOTA has 1 sense:
1. perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound
Familiarity information: BALLOTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Ballota; genus Ballota
Hypernyms ("Ballota" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Ballota"):
Ballota nigra; black archangel; black horehound; fetid horehound; stinking horehound (ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers)
Holonyms ("Ballota" is a member of...):
family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; Lamiaceae; mint family (a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary)
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