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GENUS ANDIRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Andira mean? 

GENUS ANDIRA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ANDIRA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africaplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS ANDIRA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS ANDIRA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Andira; genus Andira

Hypernyms ("genus Andira" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus Andira" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)


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