LUPINUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lupinus mean? 

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

1. herbs or shrubs: lupin

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUPINUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbs or shrubs: lupin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lupinus; Lupinus

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lupinus"):

lupin; lupine (any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers)

Lupinus arboreus; tree lupine (evergreen shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having showy yellow or blue flowers; naturalized in Australia)

Indian beet; Lupinus perennis; old-maid's bonnet; sundial lupine; wild lupine (stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers)

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

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