GENUS MELILOTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Melilotus mean? 

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

1. Old World herbs: the sweet clovers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MELILOTUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World herbs: the sweet clovers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Melilotus"):

melilot; melilotus; sweet clover (erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement)

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

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)