brachystegia

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1. small genus of tropical African timber trees having pale golden heartwood uniformly striped with dark brown or black: (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	brachystegia speciformis, msasa,
definition	:	small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers (noun.plant)

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