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PITHECOLOBIUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia
Synonyms:
genus Pithecellobium; genus Pithecolobium; Pithecellobium; Pithecolobium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pithecolobium" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Pithecolobium"):
camachile; huamachil; manila tamarind; Pithecellobium dulce; wild tamarind (common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum)
black bead; cat's-claw; catclaw; Pithecellobium unguis-cati (erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida)
Holonyms ("Pithecolobium" is a member of...):
Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)
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