Library / English Dictionary

PISCIDIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons

Synonyms:

genus Piscidia; Piscidia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Piscidia"):

fish fuddle; Jamaica dogwood; Piscidia erythrina; Piscidia piscipula (small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons)

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

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

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