GENUS LABURNUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Laburnum mean? 

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

1. flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS LABURNUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Laburnum; Laburnum

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Laburnum"):

Alpine golden chain; Laburnum alpinum; Scotch laburnum (an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum)

common laburnum; golden chain; golden rain; Laburnum anagyroides (an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations)

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

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