PARKINSONIA ACULEATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Parkinsonia aculeata mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARKINSONIA ACULEATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

horsebean; Jerusalem thorn; Parkinsonia aculeata

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

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

genus Parkinsonia; Parkinsonia (small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees)