ONONIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ononis mean? 

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

1. genus of European subshrubs or herbs having pink or purple or yellow solitary or clustered flowers: restharrow

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONONIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of European subshrubs or herbs having pink or purple or yellow solitary or clustered flowers: restharrow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ononis; Ononis

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ononis"):

Ononis repens; rest-harrow; restharrow (European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners)

Ononis spinosa; rest-harrow; restharrow (Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots)

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

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