GENUS GLIRICIDIA

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Meaning:

Small genus of low-branching profusely flowering trees of tropical America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Gliricidia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gliricidia"):

gliricidia (any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous)

Holonyms ("genus Gliricidia" is a member of...):

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

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