GENUS DERRIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Derris mean? 

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

1. genus of Old World tropical shrubs and woody vines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DERRIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Old World tropical shrubs and woody vines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Derris"):

derris (any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons)

Derris elliptica; derris root; tuba root (woody vine having bright green leaves and racemes of rose-tinted white flowers; the swollen roots contain rotenone)

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

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