1. leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae; [syn: Papilionaceae, family Papilionacea]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Papilionaceae
n 1: leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped
corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae [syn:
Papilionaceae, family Papilionacea]