Associations to the word «Stachys»

Wiktionary

STACHYS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Lamiaceae   — numerous flowering plants.

Dictionary definition

STACHYS, noun. Large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats