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GENUS CROTALARIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of herbs with simple leaves and racemes of yellow flowers; mainly of tropical Africa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Crotalaria" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Crotalaria"):
crotalaria; rattlebox (any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops)
American rattlebox; Crotalaria sagitallis (tropical American annual herb having an inflated pod in which the ripe seeds rattle)
Crotalaria spectabilis; Indian rattlebox (erect subshrub having purple-tinted flowers and an inflated pod in which the ripe seeds rattle; India)
Holonyms ("genus Crotalaria" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
