OXYTROPIS
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)
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)
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