noun
genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers
• Syn: ↑genus Lonchocarpus
• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Papilionoideae, ↑subfamily Papilionoideae
• Member Meronyms: ↑cube
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\\ˌläŋkəˈkärpəs\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a large genus of chiefly tropical American trees and shrubs (family Leguminosae) that have pinnate leaves and red and white flowers with the wings and keel united
Useful english dictionary. 2012.