CORONILLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coronilla mean? 

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

1. any of various plants of the genus Coronilla having purple or pink or yellow flowers in long axillary heads or umbels

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORONILLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Coronilla having purple or pink or yellow flowers in long axillary heads or umbels

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coronilla"):

axseed; Coronilla varia; crown vetch (European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods)

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

genus Coronilla (genus of Old World shrubs and herbs)