GENUS CHORIZEMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Chorizema mean? 

• GENUS CHORIZEMA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CHORIZEMA has 1 sense:

1. genus of Australian twining vines and small shrubs: flame peas

  Familiarity information: GENUS CHORIZEMA used as a noun is very rare.

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• GENUS CHORIZEMA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of Australian twining vines and small shrubs: flame peas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chorizema; genus Chorizema

Hypernyms ("genus Chorizema" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Chorizema"):

flame pea (any of several small shrubs or twining vines having entire or lobed leaves and racemes of yellow to orange-red flowers; Australia)

Holonyms ("genus Chorizema" is a member of...):

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