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SATUREIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Satureia mean?
• SATUREIA (noun)
The noun SATUREIA has 1 sense:
1. savory
Familiarity information: SATUREIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Savory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Satureia; genus Satureja; Satureia; Satureja
Hypernyms ("Satureia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Satureia"):
savory (any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees)
Holonyms ("Satureia" 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)
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