LABURNUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Laburnum mean? 

• LABURNUM (noun)
  The noun LABURNUM has 1 sense:

1. flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous

  Familiarity information: LABURNUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABURNUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Laburnum; Laburnum

Hypernyms ("Laburnum" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Laburnum"):

Alpine golden chain; Laburnum alpinum; Scotch laburnum (an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum)

common laburnum; golden chain; golden rain; Laburnum anagyroides (an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations)

Holonyms ("Laburnum" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

In the light of a street lamp we read “Laburnum Villa” upon the gate-post of one of them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One to Mr. Harker you see, and one to Mr. Josiah Brown, of Laburnum Lodge, Laburnum Vale, Chiswick, and one to Mr. Sandeford, of Lower Grove Road, Reading.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)