CHORIZEMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chorizema mean? 

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

1. genus of Australian twining vines and small shrubs: flame peas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHORIZEMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Australian twining vines and small shrubs: flame peas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chorizema; genus Chorizema

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Chorizema"):

flame pea (any of several small shrubs or twining vines having entire or lobed leaves and racemes of yellow to orange-red flowers; Australia)

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

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