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DESMODIUM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Beggarweed; tick trefoil

Synonyms:

Desmodium; genus Desmodium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Desmodium" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Desmodium"):

beggar's lice; beggar lice; tick trefoil (any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments)

Holonyms ("Desmodium" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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