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ANDIRA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa

Synonyms:

Andira; genus Andira

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Andira"):

andelmin; angelim (any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira)

Andira inermis; cabbage-bark tree; cabbage bark; cabbage tree (tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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