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GENUS MONARDA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Monarda mean?
• GENUS MONARDA (noun)
The noun GENUS MONARDA has 1 sense:
1. wild bergamot, horsemint, beebalm
Familiarity information: GENUS MONARDA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wild bergamot, horsemint, beebalm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Monarda" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Monarda"):
monarda; wild bergamot (any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda)
Holonyms ("genus Monarda" 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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