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GENUS PITHECOLOBIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pithecolobium mean?
• GENUS PITHECOLOBIUM (noun)
The noun GENUS PITHECOLOBIUM has 1 sense:
1. thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia
Familiarity information: GENUS PITHECOLOBIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pithecellobium; genus Pithecolobium; Pithecellobium; Pithecolobium
Hypernyms ("genus Pithecolobium" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pithecolobium"):
camachile; huamachil; manila tamarind; Pithecellobium dulce; wild tamarind (common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum)
black bead; cat's-claw; catclaw; Pithecellobium unguis-cati (erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida)
Holonyms ("genus Pithecolobium" is a member of...):
Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)
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