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MELILOTUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement

Synonyms:

melilot; melilotus; sweet clover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "melilotus"):

Melilotus alba; white melilot; white sweet clover (biennial plant; valuable honey plant)

Melilotus officinalis; yellow sweet clover (biennial yellow-flowered Eurasian plant having aromatic leaves used as carminative or flavoring agent; widely cultivated especially as green manure or cover crop)

Holonyms ("melilotus" is a member of...):

genus Melilotus (Old World herbs: the sweet clovers)

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