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TRIBULUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tribulus mean?
• TRIBULUS (noun)
The noun TRIBULUS has 1 sense:
1. annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions
Familiarity information: TRIBULUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Tribulus; Tribulus
Hypernyms ("Tribulus" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Tribulus"):
caltrop; devil's weed; Tribulus terestris (tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed)
Holonyms ("Tribulus" is a member of...):
bean-caper family; family Zygophyllaceae; Zygophyllaceae (small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea)
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