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GENUS CLIANTHUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of semi-prostrate Australasian shrubs or vines
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Clianthus" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Clianthus"):
clianthus; glory pea (any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes)
Holonyms ("genus Clianthus" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)