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GENUS VERBASCUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves
Synonyms:
genus Verbascum; Verbascum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Verbascum" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Verbascum"):
flannel leaf; mullein; velvet plant (any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Verbascum" is a member of...):
family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)
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