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Lithospermum

noun

annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia

• Syn: ↑genus Lithospermum

• Hypernyms: ↑plant genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Boraginaceae, ↑family Boraginaceae, ↑borage family

• Member Meronyms:

↑gromwell, ↑Lithospermum officinale, ↑puccoon, ↑Lithospermum caroliniense, ↑hoary puccoon, ↑Indian paint, ↑Lithospermum canescens

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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈspərməm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek lithospermon gromwell, from lith- + -spermon (from sperma seed) — more at sperm

: a genus of herbs (family Boraginaceae) having a regular tubular corolla and polished white stony nutlets — see corn gromwell, puccoon

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lithospermum /lith-ō-spûrˈməm/

noun

Any plant of the genus Lithospermum of the borage family

ORIGIN: Gr lithospermon gromwell, from lithos stone, and sperma seed

Useful english dictionary. 2012.