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Definition of Pisonia
1. Noun. Genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Allioniaceae, Family Allioniaceae, Family Nyctaginaceae, Four-o'clock Family, Nyctaginaceae
Member holonyms: Cockspur, Pisonia Aculeata
Definition of Pisonia
1. Noun. (botany) Any of the genus ''Pisonia'' of nyctaginaceous flowering plants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pisonia
Literary usage of Pisonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"pisonia Inermis extends over the Society, Gam- bier, Fiji, and Tonga groups, as
well as Australia and Ceylon. It forms part of the beach forests of the ..."
2. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"pisonia inermis extends over the Society, Gam- bier, Fiji, and Tonga groups, as
well as Australia and Ceylon. It forms part of the beach forests of the ..."
3. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"In Bombay the root forma the bulk of the drug j it is supplied by the herbalists,
and is not an article of commerce. pisonia ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"pisonia, a genus of plants of the marvel of Peru tribe, ... Prickly pisonia,
makes impenetrable hedges. Konki in Telugu means a hook, and has reference to ..."
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