CAMOMILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does camomile mean? 

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

1. Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMOMILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Anthemis nobilis; camomile; Chamaemelum nobilis; chamomile

Hypernyms ("camomile" 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)

Holonyms ("camomile" is a member of...):

Chamaemelum; genus Chamaemelum (small genus of plants sometimes included in genus Anthemis: chamomile)

Holonyms ("camomile" is a substance of...):

camomile tea (tea-like drink made from camomile leaves and flowers)

 Context examples 

Still, I could not bring myself to desert Jim; and so, as I say, I slunk about the house with so pale and peaky a face that my dear mother would have it that I had been at the green apples, and sent me to bed early with a dish of camomile tea for my supper.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)