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Definition of Lonchocarpus
1. Noun. Genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Cube
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lonchocarpus
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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