GENUS MILLETTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Millettia mean? 

• GENUS MILLETTIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS MILLETTIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of trees and shrubs of the Old World tropics

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MILLETTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of trees and shrubs of the Old World tropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Millettia"):

millettia (any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood)

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

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