GLIRICIDIA

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

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

genus Gliricidia (small genus of low-branching profusely flowering trees of tropical America)

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