lonchocarpus

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1. genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	cube,
definition	:	any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone (noun.plant)

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