PARKINSONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Parkinsonia mean? 

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

1. small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARKINSONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Parkinsonia; Parkinsonia

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Parkinsonia"):

horsebean; Jerusalem thorn; Parkinsonia aculeata (large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States)

Cercidium floridum; palo verde; Parkinsonia florida (densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium)

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

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