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GENUS ROBINIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous flowering trees and shrubs
Synonyms:
genus Robinia; Robinia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Robinia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Robinia"):
bristly locust; moss locust; Robinia hispida; rose acacia (large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers)
black locust; Robinia pseudoacacia; yellow locust (large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions)
clammy locust; Robinia viscosa (small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds)
Holonyms ("genus Robinia" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
