piscidia

English Thesaurus

1. genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	fish fuddle, jamaica dogwood, piscidia erythrina, piscidia piscipula,
definition	:	small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons (noun.plant)

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