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GENUS SWAINSONA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of Australian herbs and subshrubs: darling peas
Synonyms:
genus Swainsona; Swainsona
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Swainsona" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Swainsona"):
darling pea; poison bush (either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep)
Holonyms ("genus Swainsona" is a member of...):
Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)
