CAESALPINIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caesalpinia mean? 

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

1. small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAESALPINIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Caesalpinia; genus Caesalpinia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Caesalpinia"):

bonduc; bonduc tree; Caesalpinia bonduc; Caesalpinia bonducella (tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries)

Caesalpinia coriaria; divi-divi (small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin)

Caesalpinia decapetala; Caesalpinia sepiaria; Mysore thorn (spreading thorny shrub of tropical Asia bearing large erect racemes of red-marked yellow flowers)

brazilwood; Caesalpinia echinata; peach-wood; peachwood; pernambuco wood (tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry)

brazilian ironwood; Caesalpinia ferrea (thornless tree yielding heavy wood)

bird of paradise; Caesalpinia gilliesii; poinciana; Poinciana gilliesii (a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)

Caesalpinia pulcherrima; flamboyant tree; paradise flower; Poinciana pulcherrima; pride of barbados (tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)

Poinciana; subgenus Poinciana (small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications)

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

Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)

 Context examples 

An antineoplastic protein isolated from the seeds of the plant Caesalpinia gilliesii with antineoplastic activity.

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