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GENUS MELILOTUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Old World herbs: the sweet clovers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Melilotus" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Melilotus"):
melilot; melilotus; sweet clover (erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement)
Holonyms ("genus Melilotus" is a member of...):
Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)
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