English > Mimosoideae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae. |
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| Synonym | subfamily Mimosoideae |
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| Member of | Leguminosae, family Leguminosae, Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, legume family, pea family | A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods |
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| Members | Adenanthera, genus Adenanthera | small genus of trees of tropical Asia and Pacific areas |
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| Anadenanthera, genus Anadenanthera | 2 species of tropical American shrubs or trees |
| Enterolobium, genus Enterolobium | small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia |
| Leucaena, genus Leucaena | small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia |
| Lysiloma, genus Lysiloma | small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods |
| Parkia, genus Parkia | genus of tropical Old World trees |
| Piptadenia, genus Piptadenia | Tropical American trees and shrubs |
| Pithecellobium, genus Pithecellobium, Pithecolobium, genus Pithecolobium | thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia |
| Prosopis, genus Prosopis | genus of tropical or subtropical branching shrubs or trees |
| genus Acacia | large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia |
| genus Albizia, genus Albizzia | large genus of unarmed trees and shrubs of Old World tropics |
| genus Calliandra | genus of pinnate-leaved shrubs and small trees of tropical and subtropical North and South America and India and West Africa |
| genus Inga | genus of tropical trees or shrubs |
| genus Mimosa | genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees |
| Broader | rosid dicot family | A family of dicotyledonous plants |
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