Library / English Dictionary

MEDICAGO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of herbs that resemble clover

Synonyms:

genus Medicago; Medicago

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Medicago" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

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

Meronyms (members of "Medicago"):

medic; medick; trefoil (any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves)

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