genus echium

English Thesaurus

1. a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	plant genus,
definition	:	a genus of plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	blue devil, blue thistle, blueweed, echium vulgare, viper's bugloss,
definition	:	a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	borage family, boraginaceae, family boraginaceae,
definition	:	a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit (noun.plant)