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    GENUS SOPHORA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers; some species placed in genus Podalyriaplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Sophora; Sophora

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Sophora"):

    Chinese scholar tree; Chinese scholartree; Japanese pagoda tree; Sophora japonica; Sophora sinensis (handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan)

    coral bean; frijolillo; frijolito; mescal bean; Sophora secundiflora (shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans)

    kowhai; Sophora tetraptera (shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood)

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

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

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