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GENUS GLIRICIDIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of low-branching profusely flowering trees of tropical America
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Gliricidia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Gliricidia"):
gliricidia (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)
Holonyms ("genus Gliricidia" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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