Zygophyllum

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Zygophyllum - usually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers: bean capers genus Zygophyllum rosid 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 bean caper, Syrian bean caper, Zygophyllum fabago - perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers