Lonchocarpus

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Noun

Lonchocarpus - genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowersgenus Lonchocarpusrosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plantsPapilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceaecube - 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

Lonchocarpus

a genus of plants of the family Leguminosae. They are trees, climbing shrubs, or woody lianas. The leaves are alternate and odd-pinnate, and the flowers are violet, purple, or white, growing in racemes or panicles. There are as many as 150 species in the tropics of America, Africa, and Australia. Some species yield valuable wood. A blue dye is obtained from the leaves and young sprouts of L. cyanescens (from tropical West Africa). The roots of L. utilis and L. urucu, which grow in South America, are used to obtain a poison that is used as an insecticide.

Lonchocarpus

noun

Synonyms for Lonchocarpus

noun genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers

Synonyms

genus Lonchocarpus

Related Words

rosid dicot genus
Papilionoideae
subfamily Papilionoideae
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