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GENUS ZYGOPHYLLUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Usually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers: bean capers
Synonyms:
genus Zygophyllum; Zygophyllum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Zygophyllum" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Zygophyllum"):
bean caper; Syrian bean caper; Zygophyllum fabago (perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers)
Holonyms ("genus Zygophyllum" is a member of...):
bean-caper family; family Zygophyllaceae; Zygophyllaceae (small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea)
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