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HAEMATOXYLUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of tropical American spiny bushy shrubs or trees

Synonyms:

genus Haematoxylon; genus Haematoxylum; Haematoxylon; Haematoxylum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Haematoxylum"):

bloodwood tree; campeachy; Haematoxylum campechianum; logwood; logwood tree (spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye)

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

Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)

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