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ANAGYRIS FOETIDA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Anagyris foetida mean?
• ANAGYRIS FOETIDA (noun)
The noun ANAGYRIS FOETIDA has 1 sense:
1. shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed
Familiarity information: ANAGYRIS FOETIDA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Anagyris foetida; bean trefoil; stinking bean trefoil
Hypernyms ("Anagyris foetida" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("Anagyris foetida" is a member of...):
Anagyris; genus Anagyris (very small genus of shrubs of southern Europe having backward curving seed pods)
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