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PLATYLOBIUM

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Meaning:

Small genus of Australian evergreen leguminous shrubs or subshrubs

Synonyms:

genus Platylobium; Platylobium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Platylobium"):

flat pea; Platylobium formosum (evergreen shrub having almost heart-shaped foliage and bright yellow pea-like flowers followed by flat pods with flat wings; Australia and Tasmania)

common flat pea; native holly; Playlobium obtusangulum (low spreading evergreen shrub of southern Australia having triangular to somewhat heart-shaped foliage and orange-yellow flowers followed by flat winged pods)

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

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

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