parkinsonia
English Thesaurus
1. small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | rosid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | horsebean, jerusalem thorn, parkinsonia aculeata, |
| definition | : | large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cercidium floridum, palo verde, parkinsonia florida, |
| definition | : | densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | caesalpinioideae, subfamily caesalpinioideae, |
| definition | : | alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae (noun.plant) |
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