HyperDic: genus_coleus

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Coleus:
NOUNplantgenus Coleusgenus of Old World tropical plants cultivated for their variegated leaves
English > genus Coleus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaninggenus of Old World tropical plants cultivated for their variegated leaves; various plants sometimes placed in genera ... / genera Plectranthus or Solenostemon.
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
Memberscoleus, flame nettleAny of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers
Broaderasterid dicot genusgenus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
Spanishgenus coleus
Catalangenus coleus

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