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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various usually aromatic plants of the genus Teucrium, with purplish or reddish flowers.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A common name for labiate plants of the genus Teucrium, but especially for T. Chamædrys, having purple flowers, common in England. The water-germander is T. Scordium, and the wild germander or wood-germander is T. Scorodonia. The germander of the United States is T. Canadense.
  2. n. Same as wood germander.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A mint plant of the genus Teucrium with small, pink, white, or pale purple flowers and a small upper lip.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamædrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of various plants of the genus Teucrium

Etymologies

  1. Middle English germandre, from Old French germandree, alteration of Medieval Latin germandrea, from Late Greek khamandrua, from Greek khamaidrūs : khamai, on the ground; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots + drūs, oak; see deru- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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