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ULEX

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Meaning:

Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse

Synonyms:

genus Ulex; Ulex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ulex"):

furze; gorse; Irish gorse; Ulex europaeus; whin (very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe)

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

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

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