PISCIDIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Piscidia mean? • PISCIDIA (noun)
The noun PISCIDIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons
Familiarity information: PISCIDIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PISCIDIA (noun)
Meaning:
Genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Piscidia; Piscidia
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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