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LEADWORT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leadwort mean?
• LEADWORT (noun)
The noun LEADWORT has 1 sense:
1. a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers
Familiarity information: LEADWORT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
leadwort; Plumbago europaea
Hypernyms ("leadwort" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("leadwort" is a member of...):
genus Plumbago (shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort)
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