ALMA
First name ALMA's origin is Irish. ALMA means "all good". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ALMA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of alma.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with ALMA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming ALMA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ALMA AS A WHOLE:
almas dalmar salman hjalmar salma kalman talmadgeNAMES RHYMING WITH ALMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (lma) - Names That Ends with lma:
selma aselma thelma gulielma delma elma fidelma hilma telma velma wilma zelma helmaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Ends with ma:
adama fatuma halima ifeoma mariama neema salama esma alima asima huma lama na'ima numa ulima mukarramma rehema thema jurma erma cyma desma neoma kalama acima jemima carma kama ahisma karma padma ruma sarama sharama uma vema massima roma donoma kimama poloma shima adima juma lema tessema usama chuma jorma soma adharma algoma aluma arama dharma dreama ema emma eskama faoiltiama fatima jemma kahlima kalima karima karisma kuwanyauma lalima lodima lodyma menachema myma nadhima nakoma nehama okimma oma paloma purisima saloma selima sima suma tama temima winema yarimaNAMES RHYMING WITH ALMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (alm) - Names That Begins with alm:
almer almeta almira almo almund almunda almundena almundinaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (al) - Names That Begins with al:
al-ahmar al-asfan al-ashab al-fadee al-fahl al-hadiye al-sham ala' alacoque aladdin alafin alahhaois alai alaia alain alaina alaine alair alala alalim alamea alameda alan alana alandra alane alani alanna alannah alano alanson alanza alanzo alaqua alard alaric alarica alarice alarick alarico alarik alasda alasdair alastair alaster alastor alastrina alastrine alastriona alaula alawa alayla alayna alayne alaysha alayziah alba albaric albe alberga albern albert alberta alberteen albertina albertine alberto albertyna albertyne albin albinia albinus albion albiona alborz albracca albrecht albreda albu alburn alburt alcestis alchfrith alcides alcina alcinoos alcinous alcippe alcmaeon alcmene alcott alcyoneNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ALMA:
First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'a':
aala aaleahya aarika aarshiya aashka aasiya abba abda abdalla abdera abdulla abeba abelia abella abellona abena abequa aberfa abhaya abia abida abisha abjaja abra abraha abriana abrianna acacia academia acantha acca acharya ada adaira adairia adalbrechta adalgisa adalheida adalia adalicia adalwolfa adamina adana adanna adara adda addula adeela adela adelajda adelia adelina adelinda adelisa adelita adella adelpha adena adeola adia adianna adiba adiella adila adina adira adisa aditya adiva adjoa admeta admina adolpha adoncia adonia adora adowa adra adreana adreanna adriana adrianna adsaluta adsila adwoa adya aeaea aegina aeldra aenedlea aerwyna aethelha aethelreda aethra aetna afafa afia afina afra afraimaEnglish Words Rhyming ALMA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ALMA AS A WHOLE:
agalmatolite | noun (n.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite. |
alma | noun (n.) Alt. of Almah |
almah | noun (n.) Same as Alme. |
almacantar | noun (n.) Same as Almucantar. |
noun (n.) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar. |
almadia | noun (n.) Alt. of Almadie |
almadie | noun (n.) A bark canoe used by the Africans. |
noun (n.) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad. |
almagest | noun (n.) The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works. |
almagra | noun (n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver. |
almain | noun (n.) Alt. of Alman |
almayne | noun (n.) Alt. of Alman |
alman | noun (n.) A German. |
(adj.) German. | |
(adj.) The German language. | |
(adj.) A kind of dance. See Allemande. |
almanac | noun (n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. |
almandine | noun (n.) The common red variety of garnet. |
bipalmate | adjective (a.) Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated. |
dalmania | noun (n.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks. |
dalmanites | noun (n.) Same as Dalmania. |
dalmatian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. |
dalmatica | noun (n.) Alt. of Dalmatic |
dalmatic | noun (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia. |
noun (n.) A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation. |
edriophthalma | noun (n. pl.) A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. |
fissipalmate | adjective (a.) Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves. |
gymnophthalmata | noun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusae; the hydromedusae. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids. |
halmas | adjective (a.) The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. |
halma | noun (n.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon. |
noun (n.) A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress. |
malma | noun (n.) A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet. |
malmag | noun (n.) The tarsius, or spectral lemur. |
metalman | noun (n.) A worker in metals. |
odalman | noun (n.) Alt. of Odalwoman |
palmaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms. |
palmacite | noun (n.) A fossil palm. |
palmar | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds. |
palmarium | noun (n.) One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid. |
palmary | adjective (a.) Palmar. |
adjective (a.) Worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work. |
palmate | noun (n.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Palmated |
palmated | adjective (a.) Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread. |
adjective (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. | |
adjective (a.) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. | |
adjective (a.) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc. |
palmatifid | adjective (a.) Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center. |
palmatilobed | adjective (a.) Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center. |
palmatisect | adjective (a.) Alt. of Palmatisected |
palmatisected | adjective (a.) Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted. |
salmagundi | noun (n.) A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions. |
noun (n.) Hence, a mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany. |
semipalmate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Semipalmated |
semipalmated | adjective (a.) Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves. |
signalman | noun (n.) A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned. |
steganophthalmata | noun (n. pl.) The Discophora, or Phanerocarpae. Called also Steganophthalmia. |
stylagalmaic | adjective (a.) Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images. |
talma | noun (n.) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies. |
noun (n.) A similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen. |
totipalmate | adjective (a.) Having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves. |
udalman | noun (n.) In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right. |
() Vars. of Odal, etc. Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ALMA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lma) - English Words That Ends with lma:
pelma | noun (n.) The under surface of the foot. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ALMA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (alm) - Words That Begins with alm:
alme | noun (n.) Alt. of Almeh |
almeh | noun (n.) An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. |
almendron | noun (n.) The lofty Brazil-nut tree. |
almery | noun (n.) See Ambry. |
almesse | noun (n.) See Alms. |
almightful | adjective (a.) Alt. of Almightiful |
almightiful | adjective (a.) All-powerful; almighty. |
almightiness | noun (n.) Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. |
almighty | adjective (a.) Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible. |
adjective (a.) Great; extreme; terrible. |
almner | noun (n.) An almoner. |
almond | noun (n.) The fruit of the almond tree. |
noun (n.) The tree that bears the fruit; almond tree. | |
noun (n.) Anything shaped like an almond. | |
noun (n.) One of the tonsils. |
almondine | noun (n.) See Almandine |
almoner | noun (n.) One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc. |
almonership | noun (n.) The office of an almoner. |
almonry | noun (n.) The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed. |
almose | noun (n.) Alms. |
almry | noun (n.) See Almonry. |
alms | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity. |
almsdeed | noun (n.) An act of charity. |
almsfolk | noun (n.) Persons supported by alms; almsmen. |
almsgiver | noun (n.) A giver of alms. |
almsgiving | noun (n.) The giving of alms. |
almshouse | noun (n.) A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse. |
almsman | noun (n.) A recipient of alms. |
noun (n.) A giver of alms. |
almucantar | noun (n.) A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. |
almuce | noun (n.) Same as Amice, a hood or cape. |
almude | noun (n.) A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons. |
almug | noun (n.) Alt. of Algum |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ALMA:
English Words which starts with 'a' and ends with 'a':
abaca | noun (n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila. |
abada | noun (n.) The rhinoceros. |
abanga | noun (n.) A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest. |
abba | noun (n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch. |
abdominalia | noun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
aboma | noun (n.) A large South American serpent (Boa aboma). |
abracadabra | noun (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon. |
abranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration. |
abscissa | noun (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes. |
abuna | noun (n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church. |
acacia | noun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. |
noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates. | |
noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic. |
acantha | noun (n.) A prickle. |
noun (n.) A spine or prickly fin. | |
noun (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. |
acanthocephala | noun (n. pl.) A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines. |
acarina | noun (n. pl.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange. |
acciaccatura | noun (n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. |
aceldama | noun (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. |
acephala | noun (n. pl.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca. |
acetabulifera | noun (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. |
achatina | noun (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
acicula | noun (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal. |
acinesia | noun (n.) Same as Akinesia. |
aconitia | noun (n.) Same as Aconitine. |
acontia | noun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated. |
acrania | noun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull. |
noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists. |
acrasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy |
acraspeda | noun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora. |
acrisia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
acrita | noun (n. pl.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed. |
actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
actinia | noun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.]. |
noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae. |
actinotrocha | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles. |
actinozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa and Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example. |
actinula | noun (n. pl.) A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form. |
adansonia | noun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. |
adelphia | noun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
adenalgia | noun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy |
adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
adynamia | noun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
aegicrania | noun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. |
aerophobia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby |
aesthesia | noun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia. |
aga | noun (n.) Alt. of Agha |
agha | noun (n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect. |
agalactia | noun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy |
agama | noun (n.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. |
agora | noun (n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city. |
agouara | noun (n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America. |
agouta | noun (n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti. |
agraphia | noun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
aha | noun (n.) A sunk fence. See Ha-ha. |
(interj.) An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise. |
ailuroidea | noun (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas. |
akinesia | noun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
ala | noun (n.) A winglike organ, or part. |
alalonga | noun (n.) Alt. of Alilonghi |
albata | noun (n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German. |
albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
alcanna | noun (n.) An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained. |
alcarraza | noun (n.) A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface. |
alcyonacea | noun (n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria. |
alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
alfa | noun (n.) Alt. of Alfa grass |
alfalfa | noun (n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc. |
alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
alga | noun (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc. |
algaroba | noun (n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread. |
noun (n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico. |
algarovilla | noun (n.) The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye. |
algebra | noun (n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude. |
noun (n.) A treatise on this science. |
alhambra | noun (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada. |
alhenna | noun (n.) See Henna. |
allantoidea | noun (n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals. |
alleluia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah |
alopecia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy |
alpaca | noun (n.) An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama. |
noun (n.) Wool of the alpaca. | |
noun (n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton. |
alpha | noun (n.) The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning. |
alpia | noun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds. |
althaea | noun (n.) Alt. of Althea |
althea | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. |
noun (n.) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family. |
alula | noun (n.) A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard. |
alumina | noun (n.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3. |
alumna | noun (n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college. |
amalgama | noun (n.) Same as Amalgam. |
amblyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy |
amblypoda | noun (n. pl.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States. |
ambrosia | noun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. |
noun (n.) An unguent of the gods. | |
noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. | |
noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. | |
noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows. |
amenorrhoea | noun (n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge. |
amentia | noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding. |
ametabola | noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. |
ametropia | noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. |
amia | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin. |
amma | noun (n.) An abbes or spiritual mother. |
ammonia | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn. |
ammonitoidea | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite. |
amnesia | noun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. |
amniota | noun (n. pl.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals. |
amoeba | noun (n.) A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda. |
amoebea | noun (n. pl.) That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms. |
amorosa | noun (n.) A wanton woman; a courtesan. |
amorpha | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. |