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FIELD BALM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field balm mean? 

FIELD BALM (noun)
  The noun FIELD BALM has 2 senses:

1. trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepetaplay

2. low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to Great Britain; naturalized in United Statesplay

  Familiarity information: FIELD BALM used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FIELD BALM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

alehoof; field balm; gill-over-the-ground; Glechoma hederaceae; ground ivy; Nepeta hederaceae; runaway robin

Hypernyms ("field balm" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("field balm" is a member of...):

genus Glechoma; Glechoma (ground ivy)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to Great Britain; naturalized in United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calamintha nepeta; Calamintha nepeta glantulosa; field balm; lesser calamint; Satureja calamintha glandulosa; Satureja nepeta

Hypernyms ("field balm" is a kind of...):

calamint (perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America)


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