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TRIBULUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions

Synonyms:

genus Tribulus; Tribulus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Tribulus"):

caltrop; devil's weed; Tribulus terestris (tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed)

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

bean-caper family; family Zygophyllaceae; Zygophyllaceae (small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea)

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