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SPARTIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One species: Spanish broom

Synonyms:

genus Spartium; Spartium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Spartium"):

Spanish broom; Spartium junceum; weaver's broom (tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California)

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

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

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