TEPHROSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tephrosia mean? 

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

1. genus of tropical and subtropical herbs or shrubs: hoary peas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEPHROSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical and subtropical herbs or shrubs: hoary peas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tephrosia; Tephrosia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Tephrosia"):

hoary pea (a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods)

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

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