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GENUS SENNA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of shrubs and trees and herbs many of which are often classified as members of the genus Cassia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Senna"):

senna (any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally)

Cassia marilandica; Senna marilandica; wild senna (North American perennial herb; leaves are used medicinally; sometimes placed in genus Cassia)

Cassia tora; Senna obtusifolia; sicklepod (cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia)

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

Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)

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