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    GENUS OXYTROPIS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petalplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Oxytropis; Oxytropis

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Oxytropis"):

    crazy weed; crazyweed; locoweed (any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock)

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

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

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