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ULEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ulex mean? 

ULEX (noun)
  The noun ULEX has 1 sense:

1. genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorseplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ULEX (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ulex; Ulex

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ulex"):

furze; gorse; Irish gorse; Ulex europaeus; whin (very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe)

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

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


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