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    GENUS CAESALPINIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poincianaplay

    Synonyms:

    Caesalpinia; genus Caesalpinia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Caesalpinia"):

    bonduc; bonduc tree; Caesalpinia bonduc; Caesalpinia bonducella (tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries)

    Caesalpinia coriaria; divi-divi (small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin)

    Caesalpinia decapetala; Caesalpinia sepiaria; Mysore thorn (spreading thorny shrub of tropical Asia bearing large erect racemes of red-marked yellow flowers)

    brazilwood; Caesalpinia echinata; peach-wood; peachwood; pernambuco wood (tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry)

    brazilian ironwood; Caesalpinia ferrea (thornless tree yielding heavy wood)

    bird of paradise; Caesalpinia gilliesii; poinciana; Poinciana gilliesii (a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)

    Caesalpinia pulcherrima; flamboyant tree; paradise flower; Poinciana pulcherrima; pride of barbados (tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)

    Poinciana; subgenus Poinciana (small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications)

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

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

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