BEAN TREFOIL

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Meaning:

Shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed

Synonyms:

Anagyris foetida; bean trefoil; stinking bean trefoil

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bean trefoil" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("bean trefoil" is a member of...):

Anagyris; genus Anagyris (very small genus of shrubs of southern Europe having backward curving seed pods)

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