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TEPHROSIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical and subtropical herbs or shrubs: hoary peas

Synonyms:

genus Tephrosia; Tephrosia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Tephrosia"):

hoary pea (a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods)

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

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

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