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GENUS DERRIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of Old World tropical shrubs and woody vines
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Derris" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Derris"):
derris (any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons)
Derris elliptica; derris root; tuba root (woody vine having bright green leaves and racemes of rose-tinted white flowers; the swollen roots contain rotenone)
Holonyms ("genus Derris" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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