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GENUS CORONILLA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of Old World shrubs and herbs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Coronilla" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Coronilla"):
coronilla (any of various plants of the genus Coronilla having purple or pink or yellow flowers in long axillary heads or umbels)
axseed; Coronilla varia; crown vetch (European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods)
Holonyms ("genus Coronilla" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)