Piscidia

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Piscidia - genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons genus Piscidia rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae fish fuddle, Jamaica dogwood, Piscidia erythrina, Piscidia piscipula - small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons