genus zygophyllum

English Thesaurus

1. usually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers: bean capers (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	bean caper, syrian bean caper, zygophyllum fabago,
definition	:	perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	bean-caper family, family zygophyllaceae, zygophyllaceae,
definition	:	small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea (noun.plant)