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Brachystegia

noun

small genus of tropical African timber trees having pale golden heartwood uniformly striped with dark brown or black:

• Syn: ↑genus Brachystegia

• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Caesalpinioideae, ↑subfamily Caesalpinioideae

• Member Meronyms: ↑msasa, ↑Brachystegia speciformis

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\\ˌbrakə̇ˈstēj(ē)ə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from brachy- + Greek stegos roof + New Latin -ia — more at thatch

: a small genus of tropical African trees (family Leguminosae) having compound leaves and small flowers with no calyx and small petals

Useful english dictionary. 2012.