GENUS HEDYSARUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hedysarum mean? 

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

1. genus of herbs of north temperate regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HEDYSARUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of herbs of north temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hedysarum; Hedysarum

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Hedysarum"):

Hedysarum boreale; sweet vetch (perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints)

French honeysuckle; Hedysarum coronarium; sulla (perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop)

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

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