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PITHECELLOBIUM UNGUIS-CATI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pithecellobium unguis-cati mean? 

PITHECELLOBIUM UNGUIS-CATI (noun)
  The noun PITHECELLOBIUM UNGUIS-CATI has 1 sense:

1. 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 Floridaplay

  Familiarity information: PITHECELLOBIUM UNGUIS-CATI used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PITHECELLOBIUM UNGUIS-CATI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black bead; cat's-claw; catclaw; Pithecellobium unguis-cati

Hypernyms ("Pithecellobium unguis-cati" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Pithecellobium unguis-cati" is a member of...):

genus Pithecellobium; genus Pithecolobium; Pithecellobium; Pithecolobium (thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia)


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