GENISTA ANGLICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Genista anglica mean? 

• GENISTA ANGLICA (noun)
  The noun GENISTA ANGLICA has 1 sense:

1. prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe

  Familiarity information: GENISTA ANGLICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENISTA ANGLICA (noun)

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Meaning:

Prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

broom tree; Genista anglica; needle furze; petty whin

Hypernyms ("Genista anglica" is a kind of...):

broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("Genista anglica" is a member of...):

Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)