noun
1. hard heavy red wood of a quira tree
• Syn: ↑quira
• Hypernyms: ↑wood
• Substance Holonyms: ↑quira
2. large erect shrub of Colombia having large odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and axillary racemes of fragrant yellow flowers
• Syn: ↑Panama redwood tree, ↑Platymiscium pinnatum
• Hypernyms: ↑quira
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nounUsage: usually capitalized P
: the hard heavy red wood of a quira (Platymiscuim pinnatum)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.