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CHAMAECYTISUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small late-flowering trees or subshrubs having yellow to red flowers and leathery or woody pods; often especially formerly included in genus Cytisus
Synonyms:
Chamaecytisus; genus Chamaecytisus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Chamaecytisus" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Chamaecytisus"):
Chamaecytisus palmensis; Cytesis proliferus; tagasaste (shrub of Canary Islands having bristle-tipped oblanceolate leaves; used as cattle fodder)
Holonyms ("Chamaecytisus" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)