capitalized: a genus of Old World often woody herbs (family Leguminosae) having purple, pink, or yellow flowers in long-stalked axillary heads or umbels see axseed, scorpion senna
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plural -s: any plant of the genus Coronilla
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or less commonly coronillo
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plural -s[American Spanish coronilla, coronillo, from Spanish coronilla crown of the head, diminutive of corona crown, from Latin]: a valuable timber tree (Gleditsia amorphoides) of Argentina the bark of which yields a saponin
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, irregular from Latin corona crown; from the flower clusters