GENUS SESBANIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sesbania mean? • GENUS SESBANIA (noun)
The noun GENUS SESBANIA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of tropical and subtropical leguminous herbs or shrubs or trees
Familiarity information: GENUS SESBANIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS SESBANIA (noun)
Meaning:
Small genus of tropical and subtropical leguminous herbs or shrubs or trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Sesbania" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Sesbania"):
sesbania (any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers)
scarlet wisteria tree; Sesbania grandiflora; vegetable hummingbird (a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies)
Holonyms ("genus Sesbania" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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