GENUS AMORPHA

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Meaning:

American herbs or shrubs usually growing in dry sunny habitats on prairies and hillsides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Amorpha" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Amorpha"):

amorpha (any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Amorpha" is a member of...):

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

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