LYSILOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lysiloma mean? 

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

1. small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYSILOMA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lysiloma; Lysiloma

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lysiloma"):

Lysiloma bahamensis; Lysiloma latisiliqua; wild tamarind (a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods)

Lysiloma sabicu; sabicu (West Indian tree yielding a hard dark brown wood resembling mahogany in texture and value)

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

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