genus desmanthus

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1. genus of American herbs or shrubs with sensitive pinnate leaves and small whitish flowers (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	desmanthus ilinoensis, prairie mimosa, prickle-weed,
definition	:	perennial herb of North American prairies having dense heads of small white flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae,
definition	:	alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant)