PAPILIONOIDEAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Papilionoideae mean? 

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

1. alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPILIONOIDEAE (noun)

Meaning:

Alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Papilionoideae"):

genus Amorpha (American herbs or shrubs usually growing in dry sunny habitats on prairies and hillsides)

Amphicarpa; Amphicarpaea; genus Amphicarpa; genus Amphicarpaea (very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut)

Anagyris; genus Anagyris (very small genus of shrubs of southern Europe having backward curving seed pods)

Andira; genus Andira (small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa)

Anthyllis; genus Anthyllis (genus of Mediterranean herbs and shrubs)

Apios; genus Apios (twining perennial North American plants)

Aspalathus; genus Aspalathus (genus of South African heathlike shrubs)

Astragalus; genus Astragalus (large genus of annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of north temperate regions; largest genus in the family Leguminosae)

Baphia; genus Baphia (small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar)

Baptisia; genus Baptisia (genus of North American plants with showy flowers and an inflated pod)

Butea; genus Butea (genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak)

Cajanus; genus Cajanus (erect densely branched shrubby perennials of Old World tropics; naturalized in other warm regions)

Canavalia; genus Canavalia (herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics)

genus Caragana (large genus of Asiatic deciduous shrubs or small trees)

Castanospermum; genus Castanospermum (a rosid dicot genus of the subfamily Papilionoideae having one species: Moreton Bay chestnut)

Centrosema; genus Centrosema (a genus of chiefly tropical American vines of the family Leguminosae having trifoliate leaves and large flowers)

Cercis; genus Cercis (deciduous shrubs and trees of eastern Asia, southern Europe and the United States)

Chamaecytisus; genus Chamaecytisus (small late-flowering trees or subshrubs having yellow to red flowers and leathery or woody pods; often especially formerly included in genus Cytisus)

Chordospartium; genus Chordospartium (2 species of small New Zealand trees: weeping tree broom; endangered)

Chorizema; genus Chorizema (genus of Australian twining vines and small shrubs: flame peas)

Cicer; genus Cicer (chickpea plant; Asiatic herbs)

Cladrastis; genus Cladrastis (yellowwoods)

genus Clianthus (genus of semi-prostrate Australasian shrubs or vines)

Clitoria; genus Clitoria (genus of tropical shrubs or vines having pinnate leaves and large axillary flowers)

Codariocalyx; genus Codariocalyx (used in some classifications for plants usually included in genus Desmodium)

Colutea; genus Colutea (small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods)

genus Coronilla (genus of Old World shrubs and herbs)

genus Crotalaria (large genus of herbs with simple leaves and racemes of yellow flowers; mainly of tropical Africa)

Cyamopsis; genus Cyamopsis (small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia)

Cytisus; genus Cytisus (large genus of stiff or spiny evergreen or deciduous Old World shrubs: broom)

broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)

Dalbergia; genus Dalbergia (large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers)

Dalea; genus Dalea (indigo bush)

Daviesia; genus Daviesia (genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods)

genus Derris (genus of Old World tropical shrubs and woody vines)

Desmanthus; genus Desmanthus (genus of American herbs or shrubs with sensitive pinnate leaves and small whitish flowers)

Desmodium; genus Desmodium (beggarweed; tick trefoil)

Dipogon; genus Dipogon (one species: Australian pea)

Dolichos; genus Dolichos (genus of chiefly tropical vines often placed in genera Dipogon or Lablab or Macrotyloma)

genus Erythrina (genus of attractive tropical shrubs or trees with usually red flowers)

Galega; genus Galega (small genus of Eurasian herbs: goat's rue)

genus Gastrolobium (genus of Australian evergreen shrubs poisonous to livestock: poison bush)

Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)

genus Geoffroea; Geoffroea (small genus of shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical America)

genus Gliricidia (small genus of low-branching profusely flowering trees of tropical America)

genus Glycine; Glycine (genus of Asiatic erect or sprawling herbs: soya bean)

genus Glycyrrhiza; Glycyrrhiza (sticky perennial Eurasian herbs)

genus Halimodendron; Halimodendron (one species: salt tree)

genus Hardenbergia; Hardenbergia (small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia)

genus Hedysarum; Hedysarum (genus of herbs of north temperate regions)

genus Hippocrepis; Hippocrepis (species of Old World herbs or subshrubs: horseshoe vetch)

genus Hovea (genus of Australian evergreen shrubs)

genus Indigofera; Indigofera (genus of tropical herbs and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and spurred flowers in long racemes or spikes)

genus Jacksonia; Jacksonia (genus of yellow-flowered Australian unarmed or spiny shrubs without true leaves but having leaflike stems or branches)

genus Kennedia; genus Kennedya; Kennedia; Kennedya (genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers)

genus Lablab; Lablab (one species: hyacinth bean)

genus Laburnum; Laburnum (flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous)

genus Lathyrus; Lathyrus (genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea)

genus Lespedeza (genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States)

genus Lens; Lens (genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils)

genus Lonchocarpus; Lonchocarpus (genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers)

genus Lotus; Lotus (annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs)

genus Lupinus; Lupinus (herbs or shrubs: lupin)

genus Macrotyloma; Macrotyloma (annual or perennial vines of Africa and India and Australia; plants often placed in genus Dolichos)

genus Millettia (genus of trees and shrubs of the Old World tropics)

genus Mucuna; genus Stizolobium; Stizolobium (genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters)

genus Myroxylon; Myroxylon (a genus of tropical American trees having pinnate leaves and white flowers)

genus Onobrychis; Onobrychis (genus of Old World herbs having pinnate leaves and pink or whites racemose flowers followed by flat unjointed pods)

genus Ononis; Ononis (genus of European subshrubs or herbs having pink or purple or yellow solitary or clustered flowers: restharrow)

genus Ormosia; Ormosia (genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood)

genus Oxytropis; Oxytropis (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)

genus Pachyrhizus; Pachyrhizus (small genus of tropical vines having tuberous roots)

genus Parochetus; Parochetus (one species: shamrock pea)

genus Phaseolus; Phaseolus (herbs of warm regions including most American beans)

genus Pickeringia; Pickeringia (one species: chaparral pea)

genus Piscidia; Piscidia (genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons)

genus Pisum; Pisum (small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas)

genus Platylobium; Platylobium (small genus of Australian evergreen leguminous shrubs or subshrubs)

genus Platymiscium; Platymiscium (genus of tropical American trees: quira)

genus Podalyria; Podalyria (genus of South African leguminous shrubs often placed in genus Sophora)

genus Pongamia; Pongamia (one species: Indian beech)

genus Psophocarpus; Psophocarpus (species of tropical Asian and African climbing herbs)

genus Psoralea; Psoralea (widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers)

genus Pterocarpus; Pterocarpus (genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods)

genus Pueraria; Pueraria (genus of woody Asiatic vines: kudzu)

genus Retama; Retama (small genus of Mediterranean shrubs; often included in genus Genista)

genus Robinia; Robinia (deciduous flowering trees and shrubs)

genus Sabinea; Sabinea (small genus of deciduous West Indian trees or shrubs: carib wood)

genus Sesbania (small genus of tropical and subtropical leguminous herbs or shrubs or trees)

genus Sophora; Sophora (cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers; some species placed in genus Podalyria)

genus Spartium; Spartium (one species: Spanish broom)

genus Strongylodon; Strongylodon (genus of Polynesian or southeastern Asian shrubs or vines)

genus Templetonia; Templetonia (genus of Australian shrubs or subshrubs: coral bush)

genus Tephrosia; Tephrosia (genus of tropical and subtropical herbs or shrubs: hoary peas)

genus Thermopsis; Thermopsis (genus of American and Asiatic showy rhizomatous herbs: bush peas)

genus Tipuana; Tipuana (one species: South American tree: tipu tree)

genus Trigonella; Trigonella (Old World genus of frequently aromatic herbs)

genus Ulex; Ulex (genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse)

genus Vicia; Vicia (widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs)

genus Vigna; Vigna (genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus)

genus Viminaria; Viminaria (one species: Australian leafless shrubs: swamp oak)

genus Virgilia; Virgilia (genus of South African trees having pinnate leaves and rose-purple flowers followed by leathery pods)

genus Wisteria (Asiatic deciduous woody vine having large drooping racemes of white or bluish or purple or pinkish flowers and velvety pods; widely grown as an ornamental)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Papilionoideae"):

genus Medicago; Medicago (a genus of herbs that resemble clover)

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

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)