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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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parkinsonia Aculeata

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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