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GALEGA

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Meaning:

Small genus of Eurasian herbs: goat's rue

Synonyms:

Galega; genus Galega

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Galega"):

Galega officinalis; goat's rue; goat rue (tall bushy European perennial grown for its pinnate foliage and slender spikes of blue flowers; sometimes used medicinally)

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

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

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