subshrub
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1. low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | bush, shrub, |
| definition | : | a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | darling pea, poison bush, |
| definition | : | either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | amsonia tabernaemontana, blue star, |
| definition | : | subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | periwinkle, |
| definition | : | chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bloodleaf, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | burdock, clotbur, |
| definition | : | any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | wormwood, |
| definition | : | any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sage brush, sagebrush, |
| definition | : | any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | centaury, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Centaurea (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | matchbush, matchweed, |
| definition | : | any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | guayule, parthenium argentatum, |
| definition | : | much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | thrift, |
| definition | : | any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | marsh rosemary, sea lavender, statice, |
| definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | corchorus, |
| definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | diapensia, |
| definition | : | any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | loosestrife, |
| definition | : | any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | deer grass, meadow beauty, |
| definition | : | any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | st john's wort, |
| definition | : | any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cassia tora, senna obtusifolia, sicklepod, |
| definition | : | cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | beggar lice, beggar's lice, tick trefoil, |
| definition | : | any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hedysarum boreale, sweet vetch, |
| definition | : | perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hippocrepis comosa, horseshoe vetch, |
| definition | : | European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cube, |
| definition | : | any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | coral gem, lotus berthelotii, |
| definition | : | low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers; naturalized in United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | ononis repens, rest-harrow, restharrow, |
| definition | : | European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hoary pea, |
| definition | : | a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | eriogonum, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | dryas octopetala, mountain avens, |
| definition | : | creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers; widely distributed in northern portions of Eurasia and North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | avens, |
| definition | : | any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | woodruff, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Asperula (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | linnaea borealis, twinflower, |
| definition | : | creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | milkwort, |
| definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Polygala (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | caltrop, devil's weed, tribulus terestris, |
| definition | : | tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | pachysandra, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | aeonium haworthii, pinwheel, |
| definition | : | perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | phlomis, |
| definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Phlomis; grown primarily for their dense whorls of lipped flowers and attractive foliage (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | jerusalem sage, phlomis fruticosa, |
| definition | : | a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | germander, |
| definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Teucrium (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | blue curls, |
| definition | : | any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | eringo, eryngo, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Eryngium (noun.plant) |
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