BLUE CURLS

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Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blue curls" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blue curls"):

black sage; California romero; Trichostema lanatum; wooly blue curls (an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico)

bastard pennyroyal; Trichostema dichotomum (aromatic plant of the eastern United States)

Holonyms ("blue curls" is a member of...):

genus Trichostema; Trichostema (genus of North American aromatic herbs or subshrubs: blue curls)