Caesalpinia

Caesalpinia
noun
small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana
• Syn: ↑genus Caesalpinia
• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Caesalpinioideae, ↑subfamily Caesalpinioideae
• Member Meronyms:

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\\ˌseˌzalˈpinēə, ˌsē-\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Andrea Cesalpino (Andreas Caesalpinus) died 1603 Italian botanist + New Latin -ia
: a genus of usually small spiny tropical trees (family Leguminosae) having evenly bipinnate leaves and small whitish-green, yellow, or reddish flowers in showy racemes — see brazilwood

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • Caesalpinĭa — L., Gattung der Leguminosen, kleine Bäume oder große Sträucher, bisweilen hoch kletternd, mit doppelt gefiederten Blättern und gelben oder roten Blüten in einzelnen achselständigen oder an der Spitze der Zweige rispig angeordneten Trauben und… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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  • caesalpinia — [sez΄al pin′ē ə, sēs΄al pin′ē ə] adj. designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree * * * …   Universalium

  • caesalpinia — [sez΄al pin′ē ə, sēs΄al pin′ē ə] adj. designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree …   English World dictionary

  • Caesalpinia — Caesalpinien Pfauenstrauch (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) Systematik Klasse: Dreifurchenpo …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Caesalpinia — Caesalpinia …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Caesalpinia —   Caesalpinia …   Wikipedia Español

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