noun
small genus of tropical African timber trees having pale golden heartwood uniformly striped with dark brown or black:
• Syn: ↑Brachystegia
• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Caesalpinioideae, ↑subfamily Caesalpinioideae
• Member Meronyms: ↑msasa, ↑Brachystegia speciformis
Useful english dictionary. 2012.