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GENUS ANAGYRIS

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Meaning:

Very small genus of shrubs of southern Europe having backward curving seed pods

Synonyms:

Anagyris; genus Anagyris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Anagyris" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Anagyris"):

Anagyris foetida; bean trefoil; stinking bean trefoil (shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed)

Holonyms ("genus Anagyris" is a member of...):

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

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