piscidia

Noun
  1. Genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds;
    Roots and bark yield fish poisons (synset 112579807)
    is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
    member holonym: fish fuddle, jamaica dogwood, piscidia erythrina, piscidia piscipula - 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
    belongs to: papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
    same as: genus piscidia

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