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GENISTA ANGLICA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
Synonyms:
broom tree; Genista anglica; needle furze; petty whin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Genista anglica" is a kind of...):
broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)
Holonyms ("Genista anglica" is a member of...):
Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)