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ORMOSIA

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood

Synonyms:

genus Ormosia; Ormosia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Ormosia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ormosia"):

necklace tree (a tree of the genus Ormosia having seeds used as beads)

bead tree; jumby bean; jumby tree; Ormosia monosperma (small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers; seeds are black or scarlet with black spots)

jumbie bead; jumby bead; Ormosia coarctata (West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds)

Holonyms ("Ormosia" is a member of...):

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

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