HyperDic: zygophyllum

English > 1 sense of the word Zygophyllum:
NOUNplantZygophyllum, genus Zygophyllumusually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers
English > Zygophyllum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningusually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers: bean capers.
Synonymgenus Zygophyllum
Member ofZygophyllaceae, family Zygophyllaceae, bean-caper familysmall trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions
Membersbean caper, Syrian bean caper, Zygophyllum fabagoperennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers
Broaderrosid dicot genusA genus of dicotyledonous plants
Spanishgenus zygophyllum, zygophyllum
Catalangenus zygophyllum, zygophyllum

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