PARKINSONIA ACULEATA

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

horsebean; Jerusalem thorn; Parkinsonia aculeata

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Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

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

genus Parkinsonia; Parkinsonia (small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees)

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