GENUS CROTALARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Crotalaria mean? 

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

1. large genus of herbs with simple leaves and racemes of yellow flowers; mainly of tropical Africa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CROTALARIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of herbs with simple leaves and racemes of yellow flowers; mainly of tropical Africa

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Crotalaria"):

crotalaria; rattlebox (any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops)

American rattlebox; Crotalaria sagitallis (tropical American annual herb having an inflated pod in which the ripe seeds rattle)

Crotalaria spectabilis; Indian rattlebox (erect subshrub having purple-tinted flowers and an inflated pod in which the ripe seeds rattle; India)

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

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