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Hymenaea

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Noun1.Hymenaea - genus of tropical American timber trees
genus Hymenaea
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, family Leguminosae, legume family, Leguminosae, pea family - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
courbaril, Hymenaea courbaril - West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood
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A Hymenaea leaf is visible in the specimen above, recovered from the Dominican Republic.
Flowerless plants also made form of fancy amber: fossilized resin may ... by Ehrenberg, Rachel / Science News
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All Dominican amber seems to come from a single extinct species, the so-called amber tree, Hymenaea protera, the precursor to the algarrobo, or locust, with thirteen extant species.
LUCID GEMS OF ANCIENT LIFE by Werner, Louis / Americas (English Edition)
 
 
 
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