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GENISTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom
Synonyms:
Genista; genus Genista
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Genista" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Genista"):
broom tree; Genista anglica; needle furze; petty whin (prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe)
Genista hispanica; Spanish broom; Spanish gorse (erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers)
dyer's-broom; dyer's greenweed; dyeweed; Genista tinctoria; greenweed; whin; woadwaxen; woodwaxen (small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental)
Holonyms ("Genista" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)