genus crotalaria
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1. large genus of herbs with simple leaves and racemes of yellow flowers; mainly of tropical Africa (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | rosid dicot genus, |
definition | : | a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | crotalaria, rattlebox, |
definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | american rattlebox, crotalaria sagitallis, |
definition | : | tropical American annual herb having an inflated pod in which the ripe seeds rattle (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | crotalaria spectabilis, indian rattlebox, |
definition | : | erect subshrub having purple-tinted flowers and an inflated pod in which the ripe seeds rattle; India (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae, |
definition | : | alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant) |
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