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PETTERIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One species: Dalmatian laburnum

Synonyms:

genus Petteria; Petteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Petteria"):

Cytisus ramentaceus; Dalmatian laburnum; Petteria ramentacea (erect shrub having large trifoliate leaves and dense clusters of yellow flowers followed by poisonous seeds; Yugoslavia; sometimes placed in genus Cytisus)

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

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

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