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GENUS GENISTA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Genista mean?

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

1. chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS GENISTA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Genista; genus Genista

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Genista"):

broom tree; Genista anglica; needle furze; petty whin (prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe)

Genista hispanica; Spanish broom; Spanish gorse (erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers)

dyer's greenweed; dyer's-broom; dyeweed; Genista tinctoria; greenweed; whin; woadwaxen; woodwaxen (small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental)

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

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

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