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GENUS MILLETTIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of trees and shrubs of the Old World tropics
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Millettia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Millettia"):
millettia (any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood)
Holonyms ("genus Millettia" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)