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LONCHOCARPUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers
Synonyms:
genus Lonchocarpus; Lonchocarpus
Classified under:
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)
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