SOPHORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sophora mean? 

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

1. cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers; some species placed in genus Podalyria

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOPHORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers; some species placed in genus Podalyria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sophora; Sophora

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Sophora"):

Chinese scholar tree; Chinese scholartree; Japanese pagoda tree; Sophora japonica; Sophora sinensis (handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan)

coral bean; frijolillo; frijolito; mescal bean; Sophora secundiflora (shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans)

kowhai; Sophora tetraptera (shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood)

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

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