OXYTROPIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oxytropis mean? 

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

1. large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OXYTROPIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Oxytropis; Oxytropis

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Oxytropis"):

crazy weed; crazyweed; locoweed (any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock)

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

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