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GENUS ERYTHRINA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of attractive tropical shrubs or trees with usually red flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Erythrina" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Erythrina"):
coral tree; erythrina (any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)
Holonyms ("genus Erythrina" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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