SESBANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sesbania mean? 

• SESBANIA (noun)
  The noun SESBANIA has 1 sense:

1. any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers

  Familiarity information: SESBANIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SESBANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sesbania" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sesbania"):

Colorado River hemp; Sesbania exaltata (tall-growing annual of southwestern United States widely grown as green manure; yields a strong tough bast fiber formerly used by Indians for cordage)

Holonyms ("sesbania" is a member of...):

genus Sesbania (small genus of tropical and subtropical leguminous herbs or shrubs or trees)