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    GENUS PISCIDIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisonsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Piscidia; Piscidia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Piscidia"):

    fish fuddle; Jamaica dogwood; Piscidia erythrina; Piscidia piscipula (small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons)

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

    Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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