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\ nounUsage: 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.