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trib·u·lus
(trĭb′yə-ləs)n.
See puncture vine.
[New Latin Tribulus, genus name, from Latin tribolus, tribulus, spiny plant, puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris), water chestnut, from Greek tribolos.]
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| Noun | 1. |  Tribulus - annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regionsrosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants bean-caper family, family Zygophyllaceae, Zygophyllaceae - small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea caltrop, devil's weed, Tribulus terestris - tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed |
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