ANAGYRIS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Very small genus of shrubs of southern Europe having backward curving seed pods

Synonyms:

Anagyris; genus Anagyris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Anagyris"):

Anagyris foetida; bean trefoil; stinking bean trefoil (shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed)

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

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