GENUS MILLETTIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of trees and shrubs of the Old World tropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Millettia"):

millettia (any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood)

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

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

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