GLIRICIDIA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does gliricidia mean? 

• GLIRICIDIA (noun)
  The noun GLIRICIDIA has 1 sense:

1. any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous

  Familiarity information: GLIRICIDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLIRICIDIA (noun)

Meaning:

Any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

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

genus Gliricidia (small genus of low-branching profusely flowering trees of tropical America)