LONCHOCARPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lonchocarpus mean? 

• LONCHOCARPUS (noun)
  The noun LONCHOCARPUS has 1 sense:

1. genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONCHOCARPUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lonchocarpus; Lonchocarpus

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lonchocarpus"):

cube (any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone)

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

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