BEAN TREFOIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bean trefoil mean? 

• BEAN TREFOIL (noun)
  The noun BEAN TREFOIL has 1 sense:

1. shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed

  Familiarity information: BEAN TREFOIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAN TREFOIL (noun)

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 ("bean trefoil" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("bean trefoil" is a member of...):

Anagyris; genus Anagyris (very small genus of shrubs of southern Europe having backward curving seed pods)