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SWAINSONA

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Meaning:

A genus of Australian herbs and subshrubs: darling peas

Synonyms:

genus Swainsona; Swainsona

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Swainsona"):

darling pea; poison bush (either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep)

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

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)

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