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CAESALPINIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana
Synonyms:
Caesalpinia; genus Caesalpinia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Caesalpinia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Caesalpinia"):
bonduc; bonduc tree; Caesalpinia bonduc; Caesalpinia bonducella (tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries)
Caesalpinia coriaria; divi-divi (small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin)
Caesalpinia decapetala; Caesalpinia sepiaria; Mysore thorn (spreading thorny shrub of tropical Asia bearing large erect racemes of red-marked yellow flowers)
brazilwood; Caesalpinia echinata; peach-wood; peachwood; pernambuco wood (tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry)
brazilian ironwood; Caesalpinia ferrea (thornless tree yielding heavy wood)
bird of paradise; Caesalpinia gilliesii; poinciana; Poinciana gilliesii (a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)
Caesalpinia pulcherrima; flamboyant tree; paradise flower; Poinciana pulcherrima; pride of barbados (tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)
Poinciana; subgenus Poinciana (small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications)
Holonyms ("Caesalpinia" is a member of...):
Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)
