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AMORPHA

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Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

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

Amorpha canescens; lead plant; leadplant (shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore)

Amorpha californica; bastard indigo; false indigo (an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers)

Amorpha fruticosa; bastard indigo; false indigo (dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers)

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

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

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