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RUNAWAY ROBIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does runaway robin mean? 

RUNAWAY ROBIN (noun)
  The noun RUNAWAY ROBIN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RUNAWAY ROBIN used as a noun is very rare.


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RUNAWAY ROBIN (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 ("runaway robin" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("runaway robin" is a member of...):

genus Glechoma; Glechoma (ground ivy)


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