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Definition of Genus Caesalpinia
1. Noun. Small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Caesalpinioideae, Subfamily Caesalpinioideae
Member holonyms: Bonduc, Bonduc Tree, Caesalpinia Bonduc, Caesalpinia Bonducella, Caesalpinia Coriaria, Divi-divi, Caesalpinia Decapetala, Caesalpinia Sepiaria, Mysore Thorn, Brazilwood, Caesalpinia Echinata, Peach-wood, Peachwood, Pernambuco Wood, Brazilian Ironwood, Caesalpinia Ferrea, Bird Of Paradise, Caesalpinia Gilliesii, Poinciana, Poinciana Gilliesii, Caesalpinia Pulcherrima, Flamboyant Tree, Paradise Flower, Poinciana Pulcherrima, Pride Of Barbados, Poinciana, Subgenus Poinciana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Caesalpinia
Literary usage of Genus Caesalpinia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... contains the typical genus Caesalpinia. 728. Ordinal Names are formed in the
same way, but with a preference for certain terminations which may denote ..."
2. Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours: And by Edward Bancroft (1814)
"This seems to belong to the genus caesalpinia, though the species has not, as I
believe, been sufficiently ascertained. Sir Hans Sloane, in his Natural ..."
3. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"BRAZILWOOD Several species of the leguminous genus Caesalpinia have been used as
a source of dyes. One of these trees, ..."
4. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus Caesalpinia,* Linn. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 565. Baill., Hist. Pl., ii, p.
170. About 40 species are known, dis- persed throughout the hotter regions of ..."
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