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Sideritis

noun

genus of woolly aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs of Mediterranean region

• Syn: ↑genus Sideritis

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

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

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\\ˌsidəˈrīd.ə̇s\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, ironwort, from Greek sidēritis, from feminine of sidēritēs of iron, from sidēr- sider- + -itēs -ite

: a genus of European woolly mints having small flowers with the corolla included in the calyx

Useful english dictionary. 2012.