Library / English Dictionary

ROBINIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Deciduous flowering trees and shrubs

Synonyms:

genus Robinia; Robinia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Robinia"):

bristly locust; moss locust; Robinia hispida; rose acacia (large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers)

black locust; Robinia pseudoacacia; yellow locust (large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions)

clammy locust; Robinia viscosa (small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds)

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

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

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