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GENUS INDIGOFERA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Indigofera mean?

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

1. genus of tropical herbs and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and spurred flowers in long racemes or spikes

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS INDIGOFERA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical herbs and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and spurred flowers in long racemes or spikes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Indigofera; Indigofera

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Indigofera"):

indigo; indigo plant; Indigofera tinctoria (deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye)

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

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

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