genus enterolobium

English Thesaurus

1. small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	conacaste, elephant's ear, enterolobium cyclocarpa,
definition	:	tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber (noun.plant)

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