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GENUS DESMODIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Desmodium mean? 

GENUS DESMODIUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS DESMODIUM has 1 sense:

1. beggarweed; tick trefoilplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS DESMODIUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS DESMODIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Beggarweed; tick trefoil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Desmodium; genus Desmodium

Hypernyms ("genus Desmodium" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Desmodium"):

beggar's lice; beggar lice; tick trefoil (any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments)

Holonyms ("genus Desmodium" is a member of...):

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


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