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Scutellaria

noun

an asterid dicot genus that includes the skullcaps

• Syn: ↑genus Scutellaria

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Labiatae, ↑family Labiatae, ↑Lamiaceae, ↑family Lamiaceae, ↑mint family

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\\ˌsk(y)üd.^əlˈa(a)rēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin scutella drinking bowl + New Latin -aria — more at scuttle

1. : a very large widely distributed genus of herbs (family Labiatae) having purple, blue, pink, red, yellow, or white, flowers either axillary or in a terminal raceme and a bilabiate calyx with a scale or a helmetlike appendage above — see skullcap

2. -s : the dried overground portion of the mad-dog skullcap used especially formerly as a bitter tonic, antispasmodic, and stomachic

Useful english dictionary. 2012.