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Piscidia

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Noun1.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
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Burkholder, a freshwater botanist at North Carolina State University, is the person who first discovered and described the phytoplankton species Pfiesteria Piscidia when it began killing fish in a university aquarium several years ago.
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