NOUN | plant | genus Zygophyllum, Zygophyllum | usually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers |
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Meaning | usually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers: bean capers. | |
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Synonym | Zygophyllum | |
Member of | Zygophyllaceae, family Zygophyllaceae, bean-caper family | small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions |
Members | bean caper, Syrian bean caper, Zygophyllum fabago | perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers |
Broader | rosid dicot genus | A genus of dicotyledonous plants |
Spanish | genus zygophyllum, zygophyllum | |
Catalan | genus zygophyllum, zygophyllum |
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