GENUS BAPTISIA

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Meaning:

Genus of North American plants with showy flowers and an inflated pod

Synonyms:

Baptisia; genus Baptisia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Baptisia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Baptisia"):

false indigo; wild indigo (any of several plants of the genus Baptisia)

Holonyms ("genus Baptisia" is a member of...):

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