MEDICAGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Medicago mean? 

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

1. a genus of herbs that resemble clover

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of herbs that resemble clover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Medicago; Medicago

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

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

Meronyms (members of "Medicago"):

medic; medick; trefoil (any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves)

 Context examples 

To discover how plants control the amount of fungal colonization, Harrison and colleagues looked at genes that encode short proteins called CLE peptides in the species Medicago truncatula and Brachypodium distachyon.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)