Definition of Parkinsonia aculeata

1. Noun. Large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States.

Exact synonyms: Horsebean, Jerusalem Thorn
Group relationships: Genus Parkinsonia, Parkinsonia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parkinsonia Aculeata

Parker House roll
Parkeriaceae
Parkerization
Parkersburg
Parkes process
Parkesine
Parkia
Parkia javanica
Parkinson
Parkinson's
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's facies
Parkinson's law
Parkinson's syndrome
Parkinsonia
Parkinsonia aculeata
Parkinsonia florida
Parkinsonian
Parks
Parliament
Parliament House
Parliamentarian
Parliamentarians
Parma
Parma ham
Parmelia
Parmeliaceae
Parmenidean
Parmenides
Parmesan

Literary usage of Parkinsonia aculeata

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

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"parkinsonia aculeata behaves in a similar manner in so far as the leaf-spindle is here widened, and the leaflets sitting upon it fall away later. ..."

2. Guide to the Materials for American History in Roman and Other Italian Archives by Carl Russell Fish (1911)
"... and parasitism on parkinsonia aculeata was induced in cultures. Krameria canescens is a sparingly-branched shrub, gray in color. ..."

3. Bulletin by Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of the Interior, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States National Museum, United States (1907)
"parkinsonia aculeata Linnaeus. HORSE BEAN. This graceful tree is extensively cultivated in the border towns. It grows from Texas to California, ..."

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