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    GENUS SESBANIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of tropical and subtropical leguminous herbs or shrubs or treesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Sesbania"):

    sesbania (any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers)

    scarlet wisteria tree; Sesbania grandiflora; vegetable hummingbird (a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies)

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

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

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