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    PITHECELLOBIUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asiaplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Pithecellobium; genus Pithecolobium; Pithecellobium; Pithecolobium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "Pithecellobium"):

    camachile; huamachil; manila tamarind; Pithecellobium dulce; wild tamarind (common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum)

    black bead; cat's-claw; catclaw; Pithecellobium unguis-cati (erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida)

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

    Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)

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