CHAMAECYTISUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chamaecytisus mean? 

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

1. small late-flowering trees or subshrubs having yellow to red flowers and leathery or woody pods; often especially formerly included in genus Cytisus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAMAECYTISUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small late-flowering trees or subshrubs having yellow to red flowers and leathery or woody pods; often especially formerly included in genus Cytisus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chamaecytisus; genus Chamaecytisus

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Chamaecytisus"):

Chamaecytisus palmensis; Cytesis proliferus; tagasaste (shrub of Canary Islands having bristle-tipped oblanceolate leaves; used as cattle fodder)

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

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