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GENUS LOTUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs

Synonyms:

genus Lotus; Lotus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Lotus"):

babies' slippers; bacon and eggs; bird's foot clover; bird's foot trefoil; Lotus corniculatus (European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America)

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

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

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