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ANDIRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Andira mean?
• ANDIRA (noun)
The noun ANDIRA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa
Familiarity information: ANDIRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Andira; genus Andira
Hypernyms ("Andira" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Andira"):
andelmin; angelim (any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira)
Andira inermis; cabbage-bark tree; cabbage bark; cabbage tree (tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic)
Holonyms ("Andira" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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