GENUS COLLINSONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Collinsonia mean? 

• GENUS COLLINSONIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS COLLINSONIA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of perennial erect or spreading aromatic herbs; United States

  Familiarity information: GENUS COLLINSONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS COLLINSONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of perennial erect or spreading aromatic herbs; United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Collinsonia; genus Collinsonia

Hypernyms ("genus Collinsonia" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Collinsonia"):

Collinsonia canadensis; horse balm; horseweed; richweed; stone-root; stone root; stoneroot (erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States)

Holonyms ("genus Collinsonia" 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)