genus psoralea

English Thesaurus

1. widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	breadroot, indian breadroot, pomme blanche, pomme de prairie, psoralea esculenta,
definition	:	densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae,
definition	:	alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant)