ANDIRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Andira mean? 

• ANDIRA (noun)
  The noun ANDIRA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa

  Familiarity information: ANDIRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANDIRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Andira; genus Andira

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Andira"):

andelmin; angelim (any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira)

Andira inermis; cabbage-bark tree; cabbage bark; cabbage tree (tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic)

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

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