CLITORIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Clitoria mean? 

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

1. genus of tropical shrubs or vines having pinnate leaves and large axillary flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLITORIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical shrubs or vines having pinnate leaves and large axillary flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clitoria; genus Clitoria

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Clitoria"):

butterfly pea; Clitoria mariana (large-flowered wild twining vine of southeastern and central United States having pale blue flowers)

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

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