STIZOLOBIUM

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters

Synonyms:

genus Mucuna; genus Stizolobium; Stizolobium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Stizolobium" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Stizolobium"):

mucuna (any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres)

Holonyms ("Stizolobium" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)