HyperDic: genus_ballota

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Ballota:
NOUNplantgenus Ballota, Ballotaperennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area
English > genus Ballota: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningperennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound.
SynonymBallota
Member ofLabiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint familyA 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
Membersblack horehound, black archangel, fetid horehound, stinking horehound, Ballota nigraill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
Broaderasterid dicot genusgenus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
Spanishballota, genus ballota
Catalanballota, Ballota, genus ballota

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