genus delonix

English Thesaurus

1. evergreen or deciduous trees of tropical Africa and India (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	delonix regia, flamboyant, flame tree, peacock flower, poinciana regia, royal poinciana,
definition	:	showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	caesalpinioideae, subfamily caesalpinioideae,
definition	:	alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae (noun.plant)