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GENUS CORONILLA

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Meaning:

Genus of Old World shrubs and herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Coronilla"):

coronilla (any of various plants of the genus Coronilla having purple or pink or yellow flowers in long axillary heads or umbels)

axseed; Coronilla varia; crown vetch (European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods)

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

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

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