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    GENISTA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broomplay

    Synonyms:

    Genista; genus Genista

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Genista"):

    broom tree; Genista anglica; needle furze; petty whin (prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe)

    Genista hispanica; Spanish broom; Spanish gorse (erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers)

    dyer's-broom; dyer's greenweed; dyeweed; Genista tinctoria; greenweed; whin; woadwaxen; woodwaxen (small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental)

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

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

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