genus genista
Noun
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Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom (synset 112550713)
is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plantsmember holonym:
- broom tree, genista anglica, needle furze, petty whin - prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
- genista hispanica, spanish broom, spanish gorse - erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers
- dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen - small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental
belongs to: papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceaesame as: genista
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