PITHECOLOBIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pithecolobium mean? 

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

1. thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITHECOLOBIUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pithecellobium; genus Pithecolobium; Pithecellobium; Pithecolobium

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Pithecolobium"):

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 ("Pithecolobium" is a member of...):

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