GENUS BRACHYSTEGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Brachystegia mean? 

• GENUS BRACHYSTEGIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS BRACHYSTEGIA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of tropical African timber trees having pale golden heartwood uniformly striped with dark brown or black:

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 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BRACHYSTEGIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of tropical African timber trees having pale golden heartwood uniformly striped with dark brown or black:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Brachystegia; genus Brachystegia

Hypernyms ("genus Brachystegia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Brachystegia"):

Brachystegia speciformis; msasa (small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Brachystegia" is a member of...):

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