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GLIRICIDIA
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I. (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:
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)