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noun
Any leguminous flowering plant of the genus Securigera, known vernacularly alongside members of the genus Coronilla (from which this genus was separated) as crownvetches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
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History
Borrowed from translingual Securigera, itself from Latin secūriger (“axebearing, axewielding”).
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