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PLATYLOBIUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small genus of Australian evergreen leguminous shrubs or subshrubs
Synonyms:
genus Platylobium; Platylobium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Platylobium" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Platylobium"):
flat pea; Platylobium formosum (evergreen shrub having almost heart-shaped foliage and bright yellow pea-like flowers followed by flat pods with flat wings; Australia and Tasmania)
common flat pea; native holly; Playlobium obtusangulum (low spreading evergreen shrub of southern Australia having triangular to somewhat heart-shaped foliage and orange-yellow flowers followed by flat winged pods)
Holonyms ("Platylobium" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)