GENUS DAVIESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Daviesia mean? 

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

1. genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DAVIESIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Daviesia; genus Daviesia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Daviesia"):

bitter pea (any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Daviesia having yellow flowers and triangular seeds; Australia)

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

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