lupine
English Thesaurus
1. any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | ligneous plant, woody plant, |
| definition | : | a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | egyptian lupine, field lupine, lupinus albus, white lupine, wolf bean, |
| definition | : | white-flowered Eurasian herb widely cultivated for forage and erosion control (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lupinus luteus, yellow lupine, |
| definition | : | yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated for forage (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bluebonnet, buffalo clover, lupinus subcarnosus, texas bluebonnet, |
| definition | : | low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lupinus texensis, texas bluebonnet, |
| definition | : | closely resembles Lupinus subcarnosus; southwestern United States (Texas) (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus lupinus, lupinus, |
| definition | : | herbs or shrubs: lupin (noun.plant) |
2. of or relating to or characteristic of wolves (adj.pert)
| pertainym | : | wolf, |
| definition | : | any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs (noun.animal) |
| pertainym | : | wolf, |
| definition | : | any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs (noun.animal) |
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