OCIMUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ocimum mean? 

• OCIMUM (noun)
  The noun OCIMUM has 1 sense:

1. basil

  Familiarity information: OCIMUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCIMUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Basil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ocimum; Ocimum

Hypernyms ("Ocimum" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Ocimum"):

basil (any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum)

Holonyms ("Ocimum" 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)