GENUS SESBANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sesbania mean? 

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

1. small genus of tropical and subtropical leguminous herbs or shrubs or trees

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

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• GENUS SESBANIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of tropical and subtropical leguminous herbs or shrubs or trees

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Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Sesbania"):

sesbania (any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers)

scarlet wisteria tree; Sesbania grandiflora; vegetable hummingbird (a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies)

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

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