genus brachystegia

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

   SynonymsBrachystegia

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofCaesalpinioideae

Questions about genus brachystegia

What does genus brachystegia mean?

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

What is another word for genus brachystegia?

Close synonyms include Brachystegia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus brachystegia a common word?

genus brachystegia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.