mimosoideae
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Alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae (synset 111774657)
is a type of: rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plantsmember holonym:
- genus mimosa - genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement
- genus acacia - large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa
- adenanthera, genus adenanthera - small genus of trees of tropical Asia and Pacific areas
- genus albizia, genus albizzia - large genus of unarmed trees and shrubs of Old World tropics
- anadenanthera, genus anadenanthera - 2 species of tropical American shrubs or trees
- genus calliandra - genus of pinnate-leaved shrubs and small trees of tropical and subtropical North and South America and India and West Africa
- enterolobium, genus enterolobium - small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia
- genus inga - genus of tropical trees or shrubs
- genus leucaena, leucaena - small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia
- genus lysiloma, lysiloma - small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods
- genus parkia, parkia - genus of tropical Old World trees: nitta trees
- genus piptadenia, piptadenia - tropical American trees and shrubs; often placed in other genera
- genus pithecellobium, genus pithecolobium, pithecellobium, pithecolobium - thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia
- genus prosopis, prosopis - genus of tropical or subtropical branching shrubs or trees: mesquite
belongs to: fabaceae, family fabaceae, family leguminosae, legume family, leguminosae, pea family - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceaesame as: subfamily mimosoideae
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