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PETTERIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: Dalmatian laburnum
Synonyms:
genus Petteria; Petteria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Petteria" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Petteria"):
Cytisus ramentaceus; Dalmatian laburnum; Petteria ramentacea (erect shrub having large trifoliate leaves and dense clusters of yellow flowers followed by poisonous seeds; Yugoslavia; sometimes placed in genus Cytisus)
Holonyms ("Petteria" is a member of...):
Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)