LAMIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lamium mean? 

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

1. genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAMIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lamium; Lamium

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Lamium"):

dead nettle (any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips)

Lamium album; white dead nettle (European dead nettle with white flowers)

henbit; Lamium amplexicaule (Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers)

Holonyms ("Lamium" 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)