genus pterocarpus

1. Genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods (synset 112585345)
   is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
   member holonym:

   • bloodwood tree, kiaat, pterocarpus angolensis - deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood
   • amboyna, padauk, padouk, pterocarpus indicus - tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
   • burma padauk, burmese rosewood, pterocarpus macrocarpus - tree of India and Burma yielding a wood resembling mahogany
   • kino, pterocarpus marsupium - East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning
   • pterocarpus santalinus, red sandalwood, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders - tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood
   belongs to: papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
   same as: pterocarpus

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