Definition of Lonchocarpus

1. Noun. Genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Genus Lonchocarpus
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Cube

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lonchocarpus

Lombardic
Lombardish
Lombardy
Lombardy poplar
Lombok
Lome
Lomogramma
Lomography
Lomotil
Lomé
Lon
Lon protease
Lonas
Lonas annua
Lonas inodora
Lonchocarpus (current term)
London
London Bridge
London Town
London Underground
London broil
London broils
London forces
London moment
London moments
London plane
London pride
London weighting
Londonderry
Londoner

Literary usage of Lonchocarpus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"has published a revision of the Mexican and Central American species of Lonchocarpus, recognizing 40 species, 24 of which are described as new. ..."

2. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"... Ipomoea arborescens Lonchocarpus hermannii Lysiloma microphyllum L. watsonii Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum Pithecellobium leucospermum Senna atomaria ..."

3. The Journal of Botany: Being a Second Series of the Botanical Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1840)
"... of being thin and membranous, as described by Kunth from the Lonchocarpus Domingensis and latifolius. The L. sericeus belongs to ..."

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