LUPIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lupin mean? 

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

1. any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUPIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

lupin; lupine

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

ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lupin"):

Egyptian lupine; field lupine; Lupinus albus; white lupine; wolf bean (white-flowered Eurasian herb widely cultivated for forage and erosion control)

Lupinus luteus; yellow lupine (yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated for forage)

bluebonnet; buffalo clover; Lupinus subcarnosus; Texas bluebonnet (low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States)

Lupinus texensis; Texas bluebonnet (closely resembles Lupinus subcarnosus; southwestern United States (Texas))

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

genus Lupinus; Lupinus (herbs or shrubs: lupin)

 Context examples 

The term is now applied in a general way to many other related plants such as soybeans, peas, lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas (garbanzos), vetches and lupins.

(Bean, NCI Thesaurus)