pterocarpus
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1. genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | rosid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | bloodwood tree, kiaat, pterocarpus angolensis, |
| definition | : | deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | amboyna, padauk, padouk, pterocarpus indicus, |
| definition | : | tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | burma padauk, burmese rosewood, pterocarpus macrocarpus, |
| definition | : | tree of India and Burma yielding a wood resembling mahogany (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | kino, pterocarpus marsupium, |
| definition | : | East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | pterocarpus santalinus, red sandalwood, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders, |
| definition | : | tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae, |
| definition | : | alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant) |
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