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ONONIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of European subshrubs or herbs having pink or purple or yellow solitary or clustered flowers: restharrow
Synonyms:
genus Ononis; Ononis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ononis" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Ononis"):
Ononis repens; rest-harrow; restharrow (European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners)
Ononis spinosa; rest-harrow; restharrow (Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots)
Holonyms ("Ononis" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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