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    GENUS BRACHYSTEGIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of tropical African timber trees having pale golden heartwood uniformly striped with dark brown or black:play

    Synonyms:

    Brachystegia; genus Brachystegia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Brachystegia" is a kind of...):

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Brachystegia"):

    Brachystegia speciformis; msasa (small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers)

    Holonyms ("genus Brachystegia" is a member of...):

    Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)

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