JACKSONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jacksonia mean? 

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

1. genus of yellow-flowered Australian unarmed or spiny shrubs without true leaves but having leaflike stems or branches

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JACKSONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of yellow-flowered Australian unarmed or spiny shrubs without true leaves but having leaflike stems or branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Jacksonia; Jacksonia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

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

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