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GENUS COLUTEA

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Meaning:

Small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods

Synonyms:

Colutea; genus Colutea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Colutea"):

bladder senna; Colutea arborescens (yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food)

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

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

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