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SOPHORA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers; some species placed in genus Podalyria
Synonyms:
genus Sophora; Sophora
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Sophora" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Sophora"):
Chinese scholar tree; Chinese scholartree; Japanese pagoda tree; Sophora japonica; Sophora sinensis (handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan)
coral bean; frijolillo; frijolito; mescal bean; Sophora secundiflora (shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans)
kowhai; Sophora tetraptera (shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood)
Holonyms ("Sophora" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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