PLATYMISCIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Platymiscium mean? 

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

1. genus of tropical American trees: quira

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLATYMISCIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical American trees: quira

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Platymiscium; Platymiscium

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Platymiscium"):

quira (any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber)

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

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