sophora
English Thesaurus
1. cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and showy flowers; some species placed in genus Podalyria (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | rosid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | chinese scholar tree, chinese scholartree, japanese pagoda tree, sophora japonica, sophora sinensis, |
| definition | : | handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | coral bean, frijolillo, frijolito, mescal bean, sophora secundiflora, |
| definition | : | shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | kowhai, sophora tetraptera, |
| definition | : | shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae, |
| definition | : | alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant) |
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