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Cladrastis

noun

yellowwoods

• Syn: ↑genus Cladrastis

• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Papilionoideae, ↑subfamily Papilionoideae

• Member Meronyms: ↑Kentucky yellowwood, ↑gopherwood, ↑Cladrastis lutea, ↑Cladrastis kentukea

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\\kləˈdrastə̇s\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, irregular from clad- + Greek thraustos brittle (from thrauein to shatter) — more at dreary

: a genus of ornamental trees (family Leguminosae) having odd-pinnate leaves and white flowers borne in showy panicles — see yellowwood 1a

Useful english dictionary. 2012.