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GENUS OXYTROPIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petal
Synonyms:
genus Oxytropis; Oxytropis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Oxytropis" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Oxytropis"):
crazy weed; crazyweed; locoweed (any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock)
Holonyms ("genus Oxytropis" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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