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GENUS DALBERGIA

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GENUS DALBERGIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS DALBERGIA has 1 sense:

1. large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers

  Familiarity information: GENUS DALBERGIA used as a noun is very rare.


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GENUS DALBERGIA (noun)


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Meaning:

Large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dalbergia; genus Dalbergia

Hypernyms ("genus Dalbergia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Dalbergia"):

Dalbergia latifolia; East India rosewood; East Indian rosewood; Indian blackwood; Indian rosewood (East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood)

Dalbergia sissoo; sisham; sissoo; sissu (East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties)

Dalbergia cearensis; kingwood; kingwood tree (Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood)

Brazilian rosewood; caviuna wood; Dalbergia nigra; jacaranda (an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black)

cocobolo; Dalbergia retusa (a valuable timber tree of tropical South America)

Holonyms ("genus Dalbergia" is a member of...):

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


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