GENUS SPARTIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Spartium mean? 

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

1. one species: Spanish broom

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SPARTIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: Spanish broom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Spartium; Spartium

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Spartium"):

Spanish broom; Spartium junceum; weaver's broom (tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California)

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

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