BAPTISIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baptisia mean? 

• BAPTISIA (noun)
  The noun BAPTISIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of North American plants with showy flowers and an inflated pod

  Familiarity information: BAPTISIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAPTISIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of North American plants with showy flowers and an inflated pod

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Baptisia; genus Baptisia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Baptisia"):

false indigo; wild indigo (any of several plants of the genus Baptisia)

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

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