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GENUS DALBERGIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers
Synonyms:
Dalbergia; genus Dalbergia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Dalbergia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Dalbergia"):
Dalbergia latifolia; East India rosewood; East Indian rosewood; Indian blackwood; Indian rosewood (East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood)
Dalbergia sissoo; sisham; sissoo; sissu (East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties)
Dalbergia cearensis; kingwood; kingwood tree (Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood)
Brazilian rosewood; caviuna wood; Dalbergia nigra; jacaranda (an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black)
cocobolo; Dalbergia retusa (a valuable timber tree of tropical South America)
Holonyms ("genus Dalbergia" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
