GENUS DAVIESIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods

Synonyms:

Daviesia; genus Daviesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Daviesia"):

bitter pea (any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Daviesia having yellow flowers and triangular seeds; Australia)

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

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