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    ROBINIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Deciduous flowering trees and shrubsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Robinia; Robinia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Robinia" is a kind of...):

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Robinia"):

    bristly locust; moss locust; Robinia hispida; rose acacia (large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers)

    black locust; Robinia pseudoacacia; yellow locust (large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions)

    clammy locust; Robinia viscosa (small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds)

    Holonyms ("Robinia" is a member of...):

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

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