TRIBULUS TERESTRIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed

Synonyms:

caltrop; devil's weed; Tribulus terestris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Tribulus terestris" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("Tribulus terestris" is a member of...):

genus Tribulus; Tribulus (annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions)

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