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PARKINSONIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees
Synonyms:
genus Parkinsonia; Parkinsonia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Parkinsonia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Parkinsonia"):
horsebean; Jerusalem thorn; Parkinsonia aculeata (large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States)
Cercidium floridum; palo verde; Parkinsonia florida (densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium)
Holonyms ("Parkinsonia" is a member of...):
Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)