NOUN | plant | Lonchocarpus, genus Lonchocarpus | genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers |
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Meaning | genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers. | |
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Synonym | genus Lonchocarpus | |
Member of | Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae | Alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae |
Members | cube | Any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone |
Broader | rosid dicot genus | A genus of dicotyledonous plants |
Spanish | genus lonchocarpus, lonchocarpus | |
Catalan | genus lonchocarpus, lonchocarpus |
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