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GLIRICIDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gliricidia mean? 

GLIRICIDIA (noun)
  The noun GLIRICIDIA has 1 sense:

1. any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonousplay

  Familiarity information: GLIRICIDIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GLIRICIDIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("gliricidia" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("gliricidia" is a member of...):

genus Gliricidia (small genus of low-branching profusely flowering trees of tropical America)


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