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CHORDOSPARTIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

2 species of small New Zealand trees: weeping tree broom; endangered

Synonyms:

Chordospartium; genus Chordospartium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Chordospartium"):

weeping tree broom (small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods)

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

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

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