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GENUS GASTROLOBIUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of Australian evergreen shrubs poisonous to livestock: poison bush
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Gastrolobium" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Gastrolobium"):
gastrolobium; poison bush; poison pea (any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods)
Holonyms ("genus Gastrolobium" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)