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English noun: Parkinsonia aculeata

1. Parkinsonia aculeata (plant) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States


Synonymshorsebean, Jerusalem thorn


Broader (hypernym)bush, shrub


Member meronymgenus Parkinsonia, Parkinsonia









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