genus virgilia

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1. genus of South African trees having pinnate leaves and rose-purple flowers followed by leathery pods (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	keurboom, virgilia capensis, virgilia oroboides,
definition	:	tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	keurboom, virgilia divaricata,
definition	:	fast-growing roundheaded tree with fragrant white to deep rose flowers; planted as an ornamental (noun.plant)

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