noun
genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons
• Syn: ↑Piscidia
• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Papilionoideae, ↑subfamily Papilionoideae
• Member Meronyms: ↑Jamaica dogwood, ↑fish fuddle, ↑Piscidia piscipula, ↑Piscidia erythrina
Useful english dictionary. 2012.