NOUN | plant | genus Jacquinia, Jacquinia | sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae |
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Meaning | sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae. | |
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Synonym | Jacquinia | |
Member of | Theophrastaceae, family Theophrastaceae | family of mainly tropical American trees and shrubs similar to those of the Myrsinaceae |
Members | barbasco, joewood, Jacquinia keyensis | West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood |
bracelet wood, Jacquinia armillaris | small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets | |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | genus jacquinia, jacquinia | |
Catalan | genus jacquinia, jacquinia |
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