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    GENUS PARKINSONIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of spiny shrubs or small treesplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Parkinsonia; Parkinsonia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Parkinsonia"):

    horsebean; Jerusalem thorn; Parkinsonia aculeata (large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States)

    Cercidium floridum; palo verde; Parkinsonia florida (densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium)

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

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

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