GENUS PSORALEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Psoralea mean? 

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

1. widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PSORALEA (noun)

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Meaning:

Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Psoralea; Psoralea

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Psoralea"):

breadroot; Indian breadroot; pomme blanche; pomme de prairie; Psoralea esculenta (densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots)

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

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