genus melilotus

English Thesaurus

1. Old World herbs: the sweet clovers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	melilot, melilotus, sweet clover,
definition	:	erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	fabaceae, family fabaceae, family leguminosae, legume family, leguminosae, pea family,
definition	:	a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae (noun.plant)